MANDAREE, ND ·
OSHA Inspection: UNIT DRILLING COMPANY
Referral inspection · Safety discipline
At a glance
On , OSHA opened a referral safety inspection of UNIT DRILLING COMPANY in RIG 329, THREE MILES EAST OF BIA 17, MANDAREE, ND 58757 (NAICS 213111). OSHA activity number 339543878.
OSHA opens inspections for many reasons: routine scheduling under a national or local emphasis program, an employee complaint or referral, or a follow-up after a reported injury. Opening or conducting an inspection is not itself an allegation or a finding that this employer broke any rule; any findings appear as the citations listed below, and citations can be contested, reduced, or withdrawn.
Where did this inspection happen?
- Establishment
- UNIT DRILLING COMPANY
- Site address
- RIG 329, THREE MILES EAST OF BIA 17
- City
- MANDAREE
- State
- ND
- ZIP
- 58757
- Mailing
- 7130 SOUTH LEWIS STREET, TULSA, OK 74170
What kind of inspection was it?
- Inspection type
- Referral (C)
- Scope
- Partial (B)
- Discipline
- Safety
- Advance notice
- No
- Union status
- Non-union (B)
When did the case open and close?
- Opened
- Closing conference
- Case closed
- Last modified
- Data loaded
Establishment context
- NAICS code
- 213111
- Employees
- 2439
- Ownership type
- Private (A)
Citations
1 citation on file for this inspection.
5(a)(1)
- Issued
- May 16, 2014
- Abate by
- Feb 9, 2015
- Penalty
- Initial $7,000 · Current $3,500 Reduced
General-duty citation text
Section 5(a)(1): The employer did not furnish employment and a place of employment which were free from recognized hazards that were causing or likely to cause death or serious physical harm to employees in that employees were exposed to struck-by hazards: (a) On or about December 23, 2013, an employee was exposed to and struck by a hazard when, among other things, he entered an active work environment on the Rig 329 floor where ice and oil-based mud built up around the locking mechanism of the top drive elevator links on Rig 329 and prevented the locking mechanism from working properly and caused the elevators to rotate at a rate of speed higher than what was set in the drive parameters. Abatement Note: Among other methods, one feasible and acceptable means of abatement to correct the hazard would be to follow Tesco's operating procedure which states, "Before operating the pipe handler, ensure the links and elevators are hanging vertically."
Recent events (3)
- · F (S) $3500
- · C (S) $7000
- · Z (S) $7000
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Source
This record is reproduced from the U.S. Department of Labor Open Data API (OSHA inspection dataset). OSHA publishes its own view of this case as inspection number 339543878.
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