Incident date: 2020-01-10
NAICS industry code: 237990

An employee was helping the operator remove an auger bit from a drilling rig. During the removal, his left hand was crushed between the head of the auger bit and outer kelly resulting in amputation of the pinky finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Machine and appliance parts, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high