OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14535835
OIL WELL DRILLING,CAUGHT BY,FALL,ELEVATED WORK PLAT,OIL RIG
Event description
Employee killed when thrown from rig platform
Investigation abstract
This operation involved a rotary drilling rig used in oil exploration activities imately 30 to 40 ft into the air and 60 ft from the elevated rig platform, causi ng him to fall on solid ground. Employee #1 was killed. . The operating crew was pulling drill pipe out of the hole and laying the indiv idual pipe joints down onto the catwalk and rolling them into storage bins. Empl oyee #1, operating the drawworks, was raising a pipe joint that was suspended by the elevators (a set of clamps or latches that grip the pipe) while the employe e held the lower end in an effort to insert a lay-down hook into the open pipe e nd. The handles on the elevators caught beneath a derrick girder, causing the pi pe to suddenly swing upward like a rigid pendulum arm. Employee #1 held on momen tarily until the whipping motion sent him flying off the end of the pipe, approx
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 38 M
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 24
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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