OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14234033
THOMAS DRILLING COMPANY
ALVA, OK·
Event description
EMPLOYEE KILLED WHEN CAUGHT BETWEEN TRUCK AND LOAD
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was assisting the other drivers to offload oil field drilling equipm 3 ft then began to backup to put slack in his cable from his truck to the porta ble mud pit. As the other driver was backing, Employee #1 walked between the tra iler and the portable mud pit and was crushed, killing him. ent from trucks and trailers on a new drilling site using his truck. He connecte d his truck winch cable to a portable mud pit, a large tank that holds drilling fluid on the rig or at a mud-mixing plant, until one end of it was on the ground . He then backed up to allow slack in his cable, got out of his truck, and disco nnected the cable. Employee #1 got back in the truck and moved it to a neutral l ocation, got out, and walked over to the side of the portable mud pit that was s till about halfway on the trailer of the other truck. The other driver drove for ward until the portable mud pit fell to the ground. He continued forward 2 ft to
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 26 Male
- Nature of injury
- Other (21)
- Part of body
- CHEST (5)
- Accident type
- CAUGHT IN OR BETWEEN (2)
- Source of injury
- MOTOR VEHICLE (HWY) (29)
- Occupation
- Occupation not reported (999)
- Human factor
- INSUFF/LACK/WRITN WRK PRAC PROG. (18)
- Environmental factor
- MATERIALS HANDLG EQUIP./METHOD (8)
- Task assigned
- Task regularly assigned (1)
Labels are OSHA's own, from the code dictionary published with the accident-investigation file. The raw code is shown beside each one so this page can be reconciled against OSHA's bulk data. OSHA notes that nature of injury, part of body, source of injury and accident type in this file are not coded to the Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System, and that the occupation titles are not standardised — so these values are not directly comparable with the OIICS-coded severe injury reports.