OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14494298
PETREN DRILLING, INC.
CANADIAN, TX·
Event description
Employee falls 8 ft from monkey board, later dies
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 and coworkers were removing the monkey board from the drill rig derr ick during a rigging down operation. Employee #1 was standing on the monkey boar d about 8 feet above the ground. When he removed the pin from his side of the pl atform and a coworker removed the other pin, the weight of the monkey board caus ed it to shift in the supporting slings, throwing Employee #1 to the ground. Bot h his elbows and one knee were fractured upon impact. Employee #1 died two days later from a pulmonary embolus (blood clot).
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 29 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 7
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 27
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 11
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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