FY 2006 Fatality Review for SIC 138X

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FY 2006 Fatality Reviewfor SIC 138X

• Sheila Schulmeyer, CAS Lubbock and El Paso
• (Presentation, Courtesy of Marianne McGee
• Corpus Christ OSHA Office

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Fiscal Year 2006

• Nation wide there were 61 fatalities is SIC 138X
  during fiscal year 2006

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Fiscal Year 2006

• Region 6 accounted for 37 of those fatalities.
• Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and New
  Mexico

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Summary

• Struck by
• 22
• Pressure Release/Explosion
• 5
• Electrocution
• 4
• Fall from elevation
• 2

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Summary

• Heart attack
• 2
• Caught in
• 1
• Asphyxiation
• 1

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Struck - By

• EE walking across the site to visually inspect
  drill pipe when he was struck by a truck.
• The crown sheave shaft came out of one of its
  mounts releasing the sheaves, the drilling line,
  165,000 pound drilling string, and the blocks
  fall to the drilling floor

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Struck - By

• An employee was traversing a steep incline on an
  ATV when the vehicle turned over striking the
  employee
• EE was struck on the head by a falling A-Frame
  leg of a drilling derrick. The employee was in
  the process of guiding the brace of the A-Frame
  leg into place

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Struck - By

• An employee was working on / near the line heater
  when the end blew off. The employee had been
  engaged in changing out the o-ring. Shut in the
  line heater by closing a valve upstream at / near
  the well head and closing a valve downstream in
  front of the separator. The valve upstream had
  been opened but the valve downstream had not been
  opened.

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Struck - By

• Employee was struck by pressurized mud and gas
  when he attempted to remove the bolt from the
  rotating head rubber gasket
• Explosion took place, which severed the flow
  lines connected to the Christmas Tree. One of the
  lines struck EE, fatally injuring him.

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Struck - By

• Employee was run over by a crawler crane being
  used to move equipment.
• Employees closed and bled line then removed seat
  in choke valve. Company man activated switch
  which remotely activated valve releasing (4000
  psi) causing a wrench to strike employee in the
  face

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Struck - By

• 23,000 traveling block and attached 180,000
  drill string fell uncontrollably to the drilling
  floor.
• While underneath the crane boom EE struck
  retaining pin. The mid-section collapsed directly
  on employee.
• EE struck by counter weights of pumping unit.

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Struck - By

• Employee jumped on to the back end of a traveling
  bobcat. The auger bit on the bobcat got stuck
  into the ground. Operator of bobcat, stopped,
  backed up the bobcat, and raised the auger bit
  up when doing this the hydraulic arms of the
  bobcat crushed his face and neck.

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Struck - By

• A large rock was kicked up by the rear tire of a
  truck which struck a worker in the head.
• An employee assisting in servicing a duplex mud
  pump was fatally injured when a 36-inch pipe
  wrench situated on the rotating shaft (bull
  wheel) of the diesel engine struck the worker
  when the clutch was engaged.

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Struck - By

• Horizontal discharge piping on a trailer foam
  unit was left loose and not secured. When the
  bleed valve was opened, the back pressure whipped
  the discharge pipe around, striking employee.
• 2 incidents have no additional information at
  this time.

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Struck - By

• Employee was struck by the dome on a Frac tank
  that was stuck and under pressure.
• Supervisor walking alongside a man-lift was
  struck by the tire and sustained fatal injuries.

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Struck - By

• Employee was thrown into the air when equipment
  on the well failed.
• A damaged handrail fell thirty feet striking an
  employee on the ground.

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Caught - in

• While lubricating rotary the employees raincoat
  was caught by the near-by rotating kelly.

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Pressure Release / Explosion

• EE was examining the hatch of a pressurized
  vessel for a suspected leak when the hatch
  exploded, striking the employee.
• While performing gas well servicing hydrocarbon
  vapors escaped from the well and was ignited by
  the engine on the work-over rig.

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Pressure Release / Explosion

• While operating a reverse circulation unit oil
  and natural gas came up from the well and the gas
  entered the intake of the swivel engine causing
  an explosion.
• Explosion occurred while ees were sleeping.

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Pressure Release / Explosion

• EE was attempting to clean out the coils from the
  hot oiler truck by pushing hot water through with
  the burners lit on the truck. Without uncoiling
  the hose, ee began pumping out he crude oil into
  the wash pit in the yard. The hot water caused a
  volatile steam cloud to form which was blown into
  the burners causing a flash fire

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Fall from Elevation

• The derrickman fell while holding onto the
  elevator after attempting to latch a drill pipe
  from the fingers of the board. He had his harness
  on but was not tie off.
• Fall from derrick board. EE grabbed the elevator
  and held on for a few minutes but than let go
  grasping a 4.5" vertical pipe. EE slid partially
  down the pipe joint until he reached the pipe
  collar from where he free fell approximately 65
  ft.

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Electrocution

• Repairing cables that had been damaged by a truck
  ee was holding cable while another employee
  energized line (incorrect line)
• Pump jack being moved with a gin pole truck, came
  into contact with or came near an electrical line.

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Electrocution

• Employee detected water leak and went to turn
  valve off. Valve was energized.
• Employee drove the forklift into the overhead
  power lines

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Heart attack

• Climbing a stairway on a drilling rig EE
  collapsed.
• Employee fell to the ground suddenly and was
  unconscious

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Asphyxiation

• EE opened a cover at the top of a oil storage
  tank in order to gage the amount of water in the
  tank and was overcome by hydrogen sulfide gas.

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