MIDLAND, TX —
OSHA Inspection: INDEPENDENCE CONTRACT DRILLING, INC.
Referral inspection · Safety discipline
At a glance
On , OSHA opened a referral safety inspection of INDEPENDENCE CONTRACT DRILLING, INC. in DRILLING RIG 306 GPS: 32.143184, -102.109399, MIDLAND, TX 79707 (NAICS 213111). OSHA activity number 348374208.
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Where did this inspection happen?
- Establishment
- INDEPENDENCE CONTRACT DRILLING, INC.
- Site address
- DRILLING RIG 306 GPS: 32.143184, -102.109399
- City
- MIDLAND
- State
- TX
- ZIP
- 79707
- Mailing
- 20475 STATE HIGHWAY 249 STE 300, HOUSTON, TX 77070
What kind of inspection was it?
- Inspection type
- Referral (C)
- Scope
- Partial (B)
- Discipline
- Safety
- Advance notice
- No
- Union status
- B
When did the case open and close?
- Opened
- Closing conference
- Case closed
- Last modified
- Data loaded
Establishment context
- NAICS code
- 213111
- Employees
- 28
- Ownership type
- A
Citations
1 citation on file for this inspection.
1910.147 D05 I
- Issued
- Dec 23, 2025
- Penalty
- Initial $16,550 · Current $2,500 Reduced
General-duty citation text
29 CFR 1910.147(d)(5)(i): All potentially hazardous stored or residual energy was not relieved, disconnected, restrained or otherwise rendered safe after the application of lockout or tagout devices to energy isolating devices. On or about July 6, 2025, on the south side of the job site; employees engaged in removal and maintenance of a pulsation dampener. Despite exercising all reasonable diligence to relieve all potentially hazardous stored energy from the pulsation dampener, the employer neither knew nor could have known that all of the stored energy had not been released.
Recent events (2)
- — I (O) $2500
- — Z (S) $16550
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Source
This record is reproduced from the U.S. Department of Labor Open Data API (OSHA inspection dataset). The original IMIS detail view is available at OSHA's Establishment Search for activity number 348374208.
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