| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-03-09 | Denver City | Texas | Pate Trucking Co Inc | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
| An employee was using a pocket knife to remove a headlight switch from a truck. The knife cut his left thumb. | |||||
| 2019-07-28 | Denver City | Texas | Kalsec Southwest | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was unplugging raw material from a feed elevator when he asked another employee to turn on the elevator to make sure it was not plugged in. He saw sticks piling up at the bottom and went to pull them out. His hand was near the opening of the elevator when he lost his balance and one of the buckets caught his right hand. His right hand was then pulled inside the elevator, causing a laceration to the right middle finger. As a result, the bottom of his right middle fingertip was amputa | |||||
| 2019-04-17 | Denver City | Texas | Hydrostatic Pipe Service | Foot (feet) | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle |
| Broken test tools came free after being stuck inside tubing on a workover rig. They struck an employee, breaking the employee's foot. | |||||
| 2019-03-06 | Denver City | Texas | Trinidad Drilling, LP | Foot (feet) | Entangled in other object or equipment |
| A Trinidad employee was helping pull a winch line with an attached hook through the substructure of a drilling rig. The hook snagged on part of the substructure, causing the line to tighten. The line was lying across the employee's foot, which it crushed and lacerated as it tightened. | |||||
| 2019-01-21 | Denver City | Texas | Suncot Gin | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
| An employee was adjusting a gin stand when the employee's left pointer finger was caught in the pulley, resulting in a finger amputation. | |||||
| 2018-08-08 | Denver City | Texas | Southwestern Public Service Company | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Other fall to lower level |
| Conductors were being strung up with ropes. While signaling to allow a conductor to be pulled up, an employee did not release the rope and it pulled him in the air. He let go of the rope while in the air and fell to the ground, suffering fractured ribs and a punctured lung. | |||||
| 2018-07-11 | Denver City | Texas | Aveda Transportation and Energy Services | Upper and lower limb(s) | Transportation incident |
| An employee was driving a pole truck. The truck contacted a power line resulting in burns to the employee's right arm and leg. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2018-04-19 | Denver City | Texas | CJR Contractors, Inc. | Knee(s) | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
| Employees were cutting steel pipe into sections. A backhoe bucket was holding pipe about two feet above ground level. Employees had cut pipe on the west side and walked to the east side to cut sections. When the crew arrived on the east side, the backhoe lifted the pipe an additional two feet in preparation to start jarring the pipe to complete the cut on the west side. As the backhoe was lifting the pipe, the pipe on the west side broke completely causing the pipe on the east side to swing nort | |||||
| 2018-01-04 | Denver City | Texas | Team Industrial Services, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Nonclassifiable |
| An employee's left index finger was smashed between a ratchet handle and measuring rod while doing a hot tap. The first digit of the employee's finger was amputated. | |||||
| 2017-06-05 | Denver City | Texas | Production Downhole Services Inc. | Hand(s) | Struck by discharged object or substance |
| An employee was performing maintenance on equipment while pressuring the unit up to the correct PSI. His hand was on top of the equipment when the air punctured his hand. | |||||
| 2017-05-17 | Denver City | Texas | Westex/WLP & WLP Energy | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Contact with objects and equipment |
| Employees were changing weights on a work-over rig from a 12 o'clock to 6 o'clock position when one of the moving weights struck an employee in the back. He suffered broken ribs and a collapsed lung, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2016-01-27 | Denver City | Texas | WLP Energy Services, LLC | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| While an employee was operating a drill collar clamp on a workover rig, his right pinky finger was caught between the clamp and the tubing tongs, amputating the fingertip. | |||||
| 2015-09-25 | Denver City | Texas | Northern Natural Gas Corporation | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was repairing a cooling fan and replacing the fan belt. The employee was using a screw driver to put the belt on when it slipped, catching the employee's finger between the pulley and fan belt. The employee's left fingertip was amputated. | |||||
| 2015-06-05 | Denver City | Texas | Dixie Electric | Nonclassifiable | Direct exposure to electricity |
| An employee received electrical burns from an arc blast at a well site while working on pump service. | |||||
| 2015-04-16 | Denver City | Texas | US Post Office | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| On or about 16 April 2015 at approximately 0830 hrs an employee suffered an amputation of the distal phalanges located on the thumb of the left hand. The employee was retrieving keys from a safe when the door was accidently closed pinning her thumb between the door and the frame of the safe. | |||||