Incident date: 2016-08-02
NAICS industry code: 213111

An employee was completing a rig down and had finished cementing. He was attempting to remove the cement plug of the plug container by lowering the plug to the ground using a wench. The plug shifted and the employee's left wrist was caught between the drill pipe and the manifold on the plug container. The employee was hospitalized with a dislocated left wrist.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Pipes, ducts, tubing, unspecified
code_nature: title: Dislocation of joints
code_body: title: Wrist(s)
severity: moderate