Incident date: 2018-10-13
NAICS industry code: 213112

A crew was coming out of a rig hole with tubing when the air backup on the tubing tongs slipped and bumped the injured employee, knocking him over a hand rail of the rig floor. He fell 6 to 7 feet head first, lacerating his forehead and breaking his left eye socket. He was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
code_source: title: Oil drilling rigs and machinery
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Eye(s)
severity: moderate