| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-11-17 | Cotulla | Tx | Bell Supply Company, LLC | Leg(s) | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
| An employee was moving pipe on a trailer when his leg was struck by a joint of 6-inch pipe that rolled off a flatbed trailer. The employee sustained a leg fracture, which required surgery. | |||||
| 2019-09-16 | Cotulla | Texas | Strong Services LP | Thigh(s) | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was coming down a wireline truck ladder. As he stepped down, his ankle rolled and he fell to the ground. He landed on and broke his right femur, and was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2019-09-10 | Cotulla | Texas | J-R-J Construction, LLC | Hand(s) | Ignition of vapors, gases, or liquids |
| An employee was circulating bad oil into tanks. He then went to remove a leaking dump valve from a compressor to conduct repair. While the dump valve was being removed, fluids sprayed out and were ignited by the hot manifold of a compressor. The employee sustained second degree burns to the palms and top surface of both hands and was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2019-07-11 | Cotulla | Texas | Chain Services LLC | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
| An employee started working from an aerial lift after returning from lunch when he started to feel ill. The employee was hospitalized for heat stroke. | |||||
| 2019-03-26 | Cotulla | Texas | Lewis Resource Management, LLC | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was standing behind a lowboy trailer, and attempting to unload an excavator. His left hand was underneath the winch cable when the winch line activated, pinching the employee's left index finger between the roller and winch cable. The employee's fingertip had to be surgically amputated. | |||||
| 2019-01-07 | Cotulla | Texas | Archrock Services | Fingertip(s) | Entangled in other object or equipment |
| An employee was helping to lower an exhaust catalyst to the ground with a rope when it created a loop that caught the employees' right gloved finger, resulting in a fingertip amputation. | |||||
| 2018-08-31 | Cotulla | Texas | Walton Henry Recruiting, LLC | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
| An employee was working in the field, installing and overseeing the installation of a midstream flexible piping system, when he started to feel weak. He was hospitalized due to heat stress and dehydration. | |||||
| 2018-04-27 | Cotulla | Texas | C&J Energy Services, Inc. | Multiple trunk locations | Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet |
| An employee was grabbing a stand pipe from a 'V' chute to guide it when the pipe swung out. The employee then fell approximately 15 feet, breaking ribs and the hip. | |||||
| 2018-03-03 | Cotulla | Texas | Greene's Energy Group | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery |
| An employee was watching the wrench. When the wrench moved, the employee's hand was caught resulting in a partial amputation of the right ring finger. | |||||
| 2018-01-30 | Cotulla | Texas | C&D Production Specialist Co., Inc. | Lower leg(s) | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle |
| An employee was bleeding down an injector line to bring a well back online when the line blew at a 90-connection. A 14-foot, 6-inch section of pipe blew out and broke the employee's tibia/fibula. | |||||
| 2017-03-01 | Cotulla | Texas | Texas Electronic Systems Specialists, Inc. | Lower leg(s) | Struck bump, hole, rough terrain on driving surface, nonroadway |
| An employee drove a high lift single operator cherry picker from the roadway onto the soft earth of a drainage ditch to avoid oncoming traffic. The uneven surface caused the employee to be thrown around the basket. The employee was wearing a safety harness and was not ejected, but received a severe laceration on his lower leg from contact with the basket guardrails. | |||||
| 2016-09-18 | Cotulla | Texas | Pipe Pros, LLC | Toes(s), toenail(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment |
| An employee was removing a pipe, which was about 1 foot above the ground, when the pipe fell on the employee's right foot and broke toes. | |||||
| 2016-08-26 | Cotulla | Texas | Southern Petroleum Laboratories, Inc. | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
| An employee was repairing a meter run and began to experience cramping. The employee was hospitalized for heat exhaustion. | |||||
| 2016-07-20 | Cotulla | Texas | J & M Premier Services, Inc. | BODY SYSTEMS | Stings and venomous bites |
| An employee was bitten by a rattlesnake on a finger on his right hand while moving boards on location. | |||||
| 2016-06-29 | Cotulla | Texas | Mission Vacuum and Pump Trucking Services Inc. | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
| An employee was preparing to hook up a tank trailer to his truck and suffered heat exhaustion. | |||||
| 2016-06-27 | Cotulla | Texas | EP Energy LLC | Fingertip(s) | Struck by or caught in swinging door or gate |
| An employee arrived at a worksite, opened the lease gate, drove the vehicle through the gate, and exited the vehicle to close the gate when the wind caught it. The employee tried to block the gate from hitting the company vehicle. The gate caught his thumb between it and the vehicle door, amputating flesh on his left thumb tip. | |||||
| 2016-05-29 | Cotulla | Texas | J.T. Swabbing Services, Inc. | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
| An employee hoisted the lubricator up off a well head using a winch and was inspecting the tool stream. The winch malfunctioned and continued to raise the lubricator up which was 8 feet long. It was raised approximately 15 feet off the ground. The cable snapped and the lubricator fell striking the employee and causing a laceration to his chest approximately 6-8 inches long and 1 1/2 inches deep. | |||||
| 2016-04-04 | Cotulla | Texas | EP Energy | Multiple body parts | Direct exposure to electricity |
| An employee was performing maintenance on a D/C line when the line ruptured, creating a flash fire. The employee suffered first degree burns to the hands and face. | |||||
| 2015-11-15 | Cotulla | Texas | Cooke Slickline | Fingertip(s) | Entangled in other object or equipment |
| An employee was pulling wire on the slip line of a truck when the wire loop caught and amputated his thumb tip. | |||||
| 2015-09-12 | Cotulla | Texas | A L HELMCAMP, INC. | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee suffered the amputation of the right index fingertip when his finger was caught between the bumper of a truck and a jack. | |||||
| 2015-06-30 | Cotulla | Texas | Mesa Southern Well Services, LP | Nonclassifiable | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle |
| Employees were running rods downhole on a servicing rig when the pump hit a tight spot causing slack on the rods. The slack resulted in the rod elevator breaking and allowing the rods to come loose. The rod struck the employee in the middle, right side of the back and knocked him to the ground. | |||||