GREELEY, COLORADO—
TRK Enterprises, Inc.
Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment · Amputations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at TRK Enterprises, Inc. , O Street & N 59th Ave, GREELEY, COLORADO 80634 on — Amputations, affecting the fingertip(s).
Final narrative
An employee was rigging down casing tools. He had two rig bales on the rig floor and was readying them to be let down to the rig floor. He had one bale upright when the rig-hand helper picked up the other bale and caught his ring finger between the two, partially amputating his distal fingertip.
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A rig crew had installed the rotating rubber onto the last joint of pipe in a mouse hole. The crew picked up the joint out of the mouse hole to attach it to the stump to make up the last joint. As the joint was placed inside the stump, the rotating rubber (wet from the weather) slid down the casing and struck an employee's right index finger. The finger was amputated.
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