OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14241160
WRIGHT BROTHERS WELDING & MACHINE, INC.
RATLIFF CITY, OK·
Event description
EMPLOYEE STRUCK AND KILLED BY FALLING OIL PUMP ARM ASSEMBLY
Investigation abstract
AT 9:30 AM ON JANUARY 7, 1987, EMPLOYEE #1 AND ANOTHER EMPLOYEE WERE DISMANTLING AN OIL FIELD PUMP FOR SUBSQUENT RETURN TO THE OWNER. THE CREW REMOVED THE TOP P UMP ARMS AND HEAD ASSEMBLY USING A POLE FRAME WRENCH TRUCK AND PLACED THE ARM AS SEMBLY ON THE GROUND A SHORT DISTANCE FROM THE WORK AREA. THE PUMP ARM ASSEMBLY WAS LEFT IN AN UNSTABLE POSITION ON SLOPING GROUND. EMPLOYEE #1 WENT BETWEEN THE ARM ASSEMBLY AND THE REAR OF THE TRUCK WHILE THE OTHER EMPLOYEE WAS IN THE TRUC K CAB. THE PUMP ARMASSEMBLY FELL OVER, STRIKING EMPLOYEE #1 IN THE CHEST. HE WAS FATALLY INJURED.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 32 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 5
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 26
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 11
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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