Incident date: 2021-07-14
NAICS industry code: 213111

Employees were creating a joint in casing. When the employees reversed out the tongs, the tension in the casing pushed the tongs toward the injured employee. The injured employee's finger was pinched between the casing safety door and the tongs and their fingertip was amputated.

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