OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14391445
DELTA WELL SURVEYORS, INC.
VENICE, LA·
Event description
EMPLOYEE KILLED WHEN STRUCK BY HIGH PRESSURE FLUID STREAM
Investigation abstract
Employee 1, a field service contract employee, was working by himself checking w eam for a short period of time which struck him in the left hip and side killing him. ell flow potentials on inactive oil/gas wells. Procedures require a pressure gau ge reading be taken on the well tubing, rigging up a reducer nipple and hose to the top of the well, and leaving the tubing open to the atmosphere through a tan k on the jack-up boat for one hour to monitor for liquid production. Employee 1 apparently hooked up his pressure gauge, opened the upper and lower master contr ol valves on the well, and read zero pressure on the well. He apparently left th e master control valves open and started rigging up the reducer nipple to the to p of the well when a sand bridge broke loose releasing a high pressure fluid str
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 32 M
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 14
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 35
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 10
- Environmental factor
- 15
- Task assigned
- 1
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