Incident date: 2018-01-18
NAICS industry code: 213112

An employee was attempting to change a gear belt on a motor that had seized on a pumping unit when the belt started moving and caught his thumb, lacerating and breaking it. The motor was not locked/tagged out at the time of the incident.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Oil drilling rigs and machinery
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate