Incident date: 2017-09-09
NAICS industry code: 213111

An employee was nippling up a blowout preventer at a drill site when the employee's hand was caught between a blind ram and 4-inch gauge sealer valve, crushing the right pinky finger. The employee's pinky finger was amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Oil drilling rigs and machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high