Incident date: 2022-03-01
NAICS industry code: 237110

On March 1, 2022, an employee was working on a water well drilling rig. At about 9:15 a.m., during a coupling, the employee's right-hand fingertips were caught in drill slips. The employee suffered partial amputations to the middle and ring fingers.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Drilling machines, drilling augers
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high