Incident date: 2017-09-29
NAICS industry code: 213112

An employee was holding a fixed centralizer while casing tongs were being used to join together casing when the centralizer slipped from his hand. As he attempted to grab it, his fingertip was caught and amputated in the casing tongs.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Oil drilling rigs and machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high