Incident date: 2019-03-06
NAICS industry code: 213111

A Trinidad employee was helping pull a winch line with an attached hook through the substructure of a drilling rig. The hook snagged on part of the substructure, causing the line to tighten. The line was lying across the employee's foot, which it crushed and lacerated as it tightened.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Entangled in other object or equipment
code_source: title: Drums, pulleys, sheaves
code_nature: title: Crushing injuries
code_body: title: Foot (feet), unspecified
severity: moderate