Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025
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OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14557920

GRANDE OIL

Event
ROTATING PARTS, WORK RULES, CLEANING, CAUGHT BY, OIL WELL SERVICING, DRIVE SHAFT, OIL RIG
NAICS
000000
Inspection type
Accident-driven
Activity number
#104702410
Employer profile
GRANDE OIL
Summary number
14557920
Report ID
653510

Event description

Employee killed when caught by oil rig drive shaft

Investigation abstract

Employee #1 was cleaning the substructure of an oil rig when he became caught by the rotary drive shaft powering a table on a modified drilling rig. He was kill ed.

Victim

  1. #1 Fatality Age 30 M

    Nature of injury
    1
    Part of body
    13
    Event type
    2
    Source
    26
    Occupation code
    614
    Human factor
    10
    Environmental factor
    6
    Task assigned
    1

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