OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14504203
STERLING DRILLING CO.
BELPRE, KS·
Event description
Employee dies of crushed head in rig
Investigation abstract
Employee #1, an oil well driller, was operating the drawwork on rig #4 making a connection. When he went to apply the brake a piece of hand line caught around t he handle, which prevented it from applying full force on the brakes. The blocks came down, catching the employee between the blocks and the drawworks. He susta ined massive head injuries and died.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 33 Male
- Nature of injury
- Other (21)
- Part of body
- HEAD (13)
- Accident type
- CAUGHT IN OR BETWEEN (2)
- Source of injury
- HOISTING APPARATUS (24)
- Occupation
- Occupation not reported (999)
- Human factor
- MALFUNC IN SECURING/WARNING OP (4)
- Environmental factor
- OVERHEAD MOVING/FALLING OBJ AC (6)
- Task assigned
- Task regularly assigned (1)
Labels are OSHA's own, from the code dictionary published with the accident-investigation file. The raw code is shown beside each one so this page can be reconciled against OSHA's bulk data. OSHA notes that nature of injury, part of body, source of injury and accident type in this file are not coded to the Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System, and that the occupation titles are not standardised — so these values are not directly comparable with the OIICS-coded severe injury reports.