Incident date: 2018-11-30
NAICS industry code: 213112

An employee was reaching between a blowout preventer (BOP) and tubing slips to pick up the BOP ring gasket when the chain broke on the BOP, causing the BOP to fall and crush the employee's right index finger. The employee's finger was amputated to the first knuckle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, unspecified
code_source: title: Valves, nozzles
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high