OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14495444
HEAD,MAINTENANCE,UNSECURED,PINNED,CRUSHED,OIL WELL SERVICING,PUMP,OVERTURN
Event description
Employee killed when crushed by oil well pumping unit
Investigation abstract
On September 16, 1987, Employee #1 was changing a leaking pumping "T" on a oil w ell. The owner of the company brought out the replacement parts, but upon inspec tion, Employee #1 found these would not work. The owner took the parts and left to replace them. Employee #1 was on the west side of the pumping unit, possibly greasing the moving parts on a Cabot FDC pumping unit, when the 6,000 lb unit fe ll over onto his head. Employee #1 was pinned under the pumping unit, and killed .
Victim
-
#1 Fatality Age 56 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 43
- Occupation code
- 867
- Human factor
- 12
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
Codes shown verbatim from OSHA's accident-investigation database. A human-readable decoder is coming in a future release once the accident_lookup2 dictionary is loaded.