Fractures

Name: Fractures at Wyoming Casing Services
Start: 11/23/2015

1 hospitalization · 2015118857 · 11/23/2015 · Wyoming Casing Services

Severity

Hospitalized: 1
Amputation: 0
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Hand(s), unspecified
Nature of injury: Fractures

Cause

Event: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
Source: Oil drilling rigs and machinery

Employer

Name: Wyoming Casing Services
Location: Approximately nine miles north of New Town, NEW TOWN, NORTH DAKOTA, 58763
NAICS: 213112
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was installing casing joints in a well using tongs when the bite of the tongs malfunctioned and the tongs bucked unexpectedly. The employee's hand got crushed between the tongs and the derrick, causing hand fractures.

Source

Authoritative: OSHA Severe Injury Reports
Machine: JSON-LD · Markdown