Incident date: 2023-01-24
NAICS industry code: 484230

An employee was installing the center steel on an oilfield drilling rig. The employee was untying the metal grate while kneeling within it; the metal grate fell on the employee's left-hand fingers and crushed them. The employee was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, unspecified
code_source: title: Grates
code_nature: title: Crushing injuries
code_body: title: Hand(s), unspecified
severity: moderate