Fractures

Name: Fractures at Nabors Drilling
Start: 4/14/2016

1 hospitalization · 2016043154 · 4/14/2016 · Nabors Drilling

Severity

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

Cause

Event: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
Source: Mining and drilling machinery, n.e.c.

Employer

Name: Nabors Drilling
Location: Rig X-35, RUSTON, LOUISIANA, 71272
NAICS: 213111
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee putting thread protectors on drill pipe was resting his hand on a TM-80 iron rough neck. The rough neck operator did not see his hand and started retracting the equipment, which caught the employee's right hand in a pinch point and broke a bone.

Source

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