Hazard Alert
Amputation of Fingers
| Injury Type: |
Amputation of fingers |
| Core Activity: |
Oil and gas wells |
| Location: |
Westman Region |
| ID Number: |
369 |
| Date of Incident: |
August 2010 |
| Sector: |
Mining, Quarrying and Oil Wells |
Details
A worker struck the left hand into the skate trough on a drilling right
catwalk and grabbed the cable, amputating four fingers to the hand
knuckles and the thumb to the first knuckle.
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