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Accident: 202495560 - Caught Ring On Equipment Parts

**Accident: 202495560 -- Report ID: 0950612 -- Event Date: 03/12/2007**
Inspection	Open Date	SIC	Establishment Name
310635867	03/23/2007	1623	Preston Pipelines Inc.

At approximately 10:30 a.m. on March 12, 2007, Employee #1 was backfilling an excavation using a bucket excavator. While coming down from the excavator his right hand with ring got stuck on the equipment catwalk edge and injured his right ring finger. Employee #1 was transported to the hospital and was hospitalized for seven days.

Keywords: excavation, ring, caught by, laceration, catwalk

Accident Details
End Use		Proj Type		Proj Cost	Stories	NonBldgHt	Fatality
Pipeline		New project or new addition		$50,000 to $250,000

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection	Age	Sex	Degree	Nature	Occupation	Construction
1	310635867			Hospitalized injury	Cut/Laceration	Occupation not reported	FallDist: FallHt: Cause: Backfilling and compacting FatCause: Other

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