OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #852350
PERFORATING GUN,STRUCK BY,CONCRETE,OIL WELL PERFORATING
Event description
EMPLOYEE KILLED BY JET PERFORATORS' DISCHARGES
Investigation abstract
At approximately 10:30 a.m. on November 17,1989, Employee #1 and another employe discharges which caused Employee #1's death. e, both engineers, were to build a carrier-type gun used to perforate oil-well c asings. When one carrier-end cap was viewed, it was noted it was a misfired gun because primacord was tucked into the carrier. The carrier had a jet perforator threaded on a strand of primacord. The blasting caps were connected at the well site. For an undetermined reason, the carrier was placed with an open-end floor, raised and bounced onto the concrete floor. While doing so a piece of the prima cord may have gotten to edge of carrier and when struck the impact set off the p rimacord and jet perforators. Employee #1 was in the way of the jet perforators'
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 29 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 43
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 5
- Task assigned
- 1
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