Incident date: 2016-04-14
NAICS industry code: 213111

An employee putting thread protectors on drill pipe was resting his hand on a TM-80 iron rough neck. The rough neck operator did not see his hand and started retracting the equipment, which caught the employee's right hand in a pinch point and broke a bone.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Mining and drilling machinery, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Hand(s), except finger(s)
severity: moderate