Incident date: 2015-10-16
NAICS industry code: 213112

The elevator lifting a 30 foot long pipe at an oil well shifted causing the bottom of the pipe to strike an employee in the back. This employee then fell against a second employee pushing the tongs into his face and causing employee 2 to fall and strike his head against the guardrail. Employee 2 was knocked unconscious for several seconds and was hospitalized with a fracture of the bottom orbital bone below the left eye.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall on same level, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Oil drilling rigs and machinery
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Eye(s)
severity: moderate