Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-10-17 | Catarina | Tx | JK Red Dirt Rentals, Inc | Nonclassifiable | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
An employee was preparing to set a blowout preventer (which was being lifted on a forklift's forks) onto a frac tree. The blowout preventor slid off the forks and pinned the employee to a grate. | |||||
2021-09-06 | Catarina | Tx | Key Energy Services, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
An employee was helping connect tubing on a hydrowalk. His middle finger was pinched between the tubing and the hydrowalk. The finger was amputated. | |||||
2021-04-05 | Catarina | Tx | Global Pipeline, LLC | Leg(s) | Contact with objects and equipment |
An employee was working on a pump skid when the employee was struck on the left leg by the pump skid. | |||||
2020-08-18 | Catarina | Tx | Mesquite Energy, Inc. | Hand(s) | Fire |
An employee turned on a combustor at an oil and gas production site. A flash fire caused second-degree burns to the employee's hands and first-degree burns to his nose and ears. | |||||
2020-03-11 | Catarina | Texas | Flowfect Inc | Foot(feet) and leg(s) | Struck by discharged object or substance |
An employee assisting in hydro-excavation operations sustained injuries to the left foot from a pressure washer being operated by another employee. The injured employee sustained lacerations on the left foot a few inches above the ankle and between the little toe and the fourth toe. | |||||
2019-08-27 | Catarina | Texas | Noble Energy, Inc. | Multiple body parts | Ignition of vapors, gases, or liquids |
An employee was delivering well parts at a worksite. A flash fire burned the employee's upper body, back, arms, and head. | |||||
2018-09-06 | Catarina | Texas | Nabors Drilling Technologies USA, Inc. | BODY SYSTEMS | Direct exposure to electricity |
An employee was holding several of an oil drilling rig's electrical cables while the rig was being transferred from one well to another. The cables were damaged, and the employee was shocked. | |||||
2018-08-30 | Catarina | Texas | Aly Energy Services Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was helping guide a pipe into place to connect to rig equipment. His left hand was caught between the pipe flange and the rig equipment's frame, and his ring finger was pinched. The tip was amputated. Personal protective equipment and impact gloves were being worn at the time of the incident. | |||||
2018-07-27 | Catarina | Texas | Schlumberger Technology Corporation | Lumbar region | Overexertion involving outside sources |
An employee had closed a plug valve halfway with a valve bar when he immediately felt a sharp pain in his lower back due to bulging discs that caused a pinched nerve. | |||||
2018-06-16 | Catarina | Texas | C&J Energy Services, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was moving metal material when one of the employee's right fingers was caught between the material, resulting in a traumatic amputation of the fingertip. | |||||
2018-05-16 | Catarina | Texas | Halliburton Energy Services | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
An employee was offloading sand at a dust collection unit that was clogged. The auger was not rotating, so employees struck it with a hammer. The employee's fingers were inside the housing unit of the auger when it inadvertently began to rotate, crushing his fingers. He was hospitalized and had surgery. | |||||
2018-03-17 | Catarina | Texas | Nabors Drilling Technologies USA, Inc. | Leg(s) | Struck by swinging or slipping object, other than handheld, n.e.c. |
The injured employee was extracting the drill string from the well bore (tripping out of the hole) and was struck by the drilling slips when the drilling string rotated resulting in a broken left leg. | |||||
2017-10-08 | Catarina | Texas | Legend Energy Services, LLC | Ankle(s) and leg(s) | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
An employee slipped and fell approximately 4 feet while he was descending the four-rung fixed ladder of a tractor trailer. He broke his leg and ankle and was hospitalized. | |||||
2017-03-27 | Catarina | Texas | Seventy Seven Energy, Inc | Mouth | Ingestion of harmful substance |
An employee accidentally drank sodium hydroxide, believing it was a bottle of water. He immediately spit out the fluid and suffered minor chemical burns to the mouth, requiring overnight hospitalization. |