Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Arnett & Burgess Pipeliners (Rockies) LLC, 48 degrees 9'26.2" N / 102 degrees 42'2.3" W, STANLEY, NORTH DAKOTA 58784
on , Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified.
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Final narrative
An employee was loading a pig into a pig launcher and closing the end hatch on a vertical pipe. The hinged pig launcher hatch began to fall and the employee attempted to catch it with his right hand, which was crushed between the pipe flange and hatch. He suffered soft tissue damage to his right middle and ring fingers, requiring hospitalization.
HospitalizedFinger(s), fingernail(s), unspecifiedOil drilling rigs and machinery