OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221425028

KINGS OIL TOOLS, INC.

MARICOPA, CA· 2021-07-20T00:00:00

Event: Amputated, Amputation, Caught Between, Concrete Pump, Drilling, Energized, Finger, Fingertip, Gas Well Drilling, Hand, Instantaneous amputation, Leak, Lockout, Lockout/Tagout, Oil Well Drilling, Oil Well Drilling/Servicing, Partial Amputation, Pinch Point, Pinched, Pump, Slip, Slippery Surface, Traumatic Amputation, Water
NAICS: 213111
Inspection type: Accident-driven
Activity number: #345686810
Employer profile: KINGS OIL TOOLS, INC.
Summary number: 221425028
Report ID: 0950647

Event description

Employee amputates fingertip in cement mud pump pinch point

Investigation abstract

At 11:45 p.m. on Jyly 20, 2021, a an employee working as a cement pump operator hospitalization for an amputated middle fingertip. for an oil and gas well drilling contractor was operating a cement mud pump unit. The employee was part of a crew performing a well abandonment. The employee started running water through the pumping unit when he noticed that water was leaking from all three of the plungers in the triplex unit. While the plunger was still energized, the employee used an 18-inch-long rod to tighten the packing nut on the farthest plunger. The rod slipped out of the hole in the nut and his right hand fell in the pinch point created by the moving plunger and the packing nut closest to him. The employee received medical treatment without

Victim

#1 Non-hospitalized injury Age 38 M

Event type
2

Occupation code
779

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