Incident date: 2015-11-04
NAICS industry code: 213112

On November 4, 2015, at approximately 8:45 an employee smashed three fingers on his right hand which resulted in hospitalization to surgically repair a broken right pinkie finger. The employee smashed the fingers when his right hand became caught between the rod elevator and tubing in the wellbore.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Oil drilling rigs and machinery
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: moderate