Incident date: 2022-10-31
NAICS industry code: 213112

A crew was servicing a well. The injured employee was using a manual backup tool to hold a pipe while it was pulled from a well to be put into an x-ray machine. The pipe slipped and the employee's finger was caught between the tool and the x-ray machine, causing the left ring fingertip to be crushed and amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker
code_source: title: Handtools-power not determined, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high