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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