Safety Alert
Lost Time Incident – Broken Finger
Lost Time Incident – Broken Finger
- IADC
- Safety Alert
- IADC Alert 00-13
- Hand and Finger Injuries
- Crushing and pinch pointsHand and finger injuries
- Manual handling
- Upstream oil and gas
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Summary
An employee sustained a broken finger requiring stitches while removing a BOP remote closing unit during rig-down operations. Employees were pushing the unit away from the rig floor after it became caught on its mounting bracket. Its sudden release trapped the employee’s finger against a handrail.
Classifications: Crushing and pinch points; crush hazards; pinch points.
Classifications: Hand and finger injuries; finger injury; hand injury.
Classifications: Manual handling; manual lifting.
Classifications: Upstream oil and gas; oil and gas extraction; upstream petroleum.
IADC Alert 00-13. Themes: hand and finger injuries.