OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14234033
CHEST,OIL WELL DRILLING,CAUGHT BETWEEN,CRUSHED,TRUCK,OFF LOADING,MUD PIT,POOR VISIBILITY
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 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 5
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 29
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 18
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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