| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-06-30 | Watford City | Nd | E & M Services LLC | Leg(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| An employee was unloading pipes from a trailer. A pipe (3.5 inch in diameter) rolled off the trailer and struck the employee's legs. The employee sustained a right leg fracture. | |||||
| 2021-05-24 | Watford City | Nd | Strata Corporation | Fingertip(s) | Struck by or caught in swinging door or gate |
| An employee's right index finger was caught in the shop door resulting in a fingertip amputation. | |||||
| 2021-03-29 | Watford City | Nd | Conoco Phillips | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by or caught in swinging door or gate |
| An employee sustained a partial left index finger amputation when high winds caused the compressor building door to slam on the employee's finger. | |||||
| 2021-02-25 | Watford City | Nd | All Weather Well Service | Fingertip(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
| An employee was tightening the on/off tool onto the sucker rod at a well site when their fingers were crushed between the rod table hole and the rod. The employee sustained a right ring fingertip amputation and a deep laceration to the right middle finger. | |||||
| 2021-02-19 | Watford City | Nd | J&A Services, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
| An employee was loading a skid tank onto a winch truck. The employee was removing a rock from under the tank when the tank came down on the employee's hand, causing finger amputations. | |||||
| 2021-02-11 | Watford City | Nd | DNB Energy Services | Nonclassifiable | Ignition of vapors, gases, or liquids |
| An employee was working at the back of a tanker trailer with a handheld impact tool. A flash fire ignited due to the friction from the impact tool and the fumes mixing, resulting in 2nd-degree burns to approximately 15% of the employee's body. | |||||
| 2020-06-05 | Watford City | North Dakota | KINDER MORGAN, INC | Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Struck by powered vehicle-nontransport |
| An employee was struck by a telehandler while inspecting it before use. The employee was hospitalized for a tear to the small intestine. | |||||
| 2020-05-13 | Watford City | North Dakota | E & M Services LLC | Multiple body parts | Ignition of vapors, gases, or liquids |
| An employee was performing maintenance and starting a gas plant by turning the valves when a flash fire and explosion occurred. He suffered burn injuries to his hands and face. | |||||
| 2019-09-24 | Watford City | North Dakota | Syndicate Energy Services, LLC | Multiple body parts | Struck or run over by rolling powered vehicle |
| An employee exited a truck, which then rolled over him. The employee sustained injuries to the skull and legs. | |||||
| 2019-08-31 | Watford City | North Dakota | Blackduck Power Equipment, Inc | Arm(s) | Vehicle or machinery fire |
| An employee was cleaning a semi-truck engine when his right arm caught on fire, sustaining second or third degree burns. | |||||
| 2019-08-18 | Watford City | North Dakota | Cruz Energy Service, LLC | Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet |
| An employee was at an oil rig. The line he was tied off to was cut, and its weight pulled him down to the rig floor about 12 feet below. He suffered a spleen injury. | |||||
| 2019-08-06 | Watford City | North Dakota | Wolla Oilfield Services, LLC | Head and trunk | Ignition of vapors, gases, or liquids |
| An employee was manually lighting burner boxes on hot oil trucks. When using a cigarette lighter to ignite a pilot burner a liquid propane gas flashback (woof) occurred and the employee suffered flash fire burns to the face and lungs. | |||||
| 2019-05-15 | Watford City | North Dakota | Wood Group USA, Inc. | Hand(s) | Struck by discharged object or substance |
| An employee was using abrasive blasting equipment as part of the fabrication process for a steel tubular rack. The employee's left hand suffered an abrasion that required hospitalization after it was struck by the blasting media. | |||||
| 2019-03-22 | Watford City | North Dakota | Sun Well Services, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
| An employee was removing slack from a sand line when the downhole tool hung up on a pipe scale. The tool slipped past the scale, creating tension on the line around the sand line drum. The employee's fingers were pinched between the line and the drum; his right thumb and index finger were amputated. | |||||
| 2019-02-26 | Watford City | North Dakota | Rogue Pressure Services | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Struck by discharged object or substance |
| An employee was flushing out the coil tubing due to a frozen line. He started hammering on the line and it broke apart. He was struck in the chest by the high pressure hose. | |||||
| 2019-02-12 | Watford City | North Dakota | Nabors Drilling USA | Forearm(s) | Contact with hot objects or substances |
| An employee was changing the pump at a wellsite. The line froze up and the trapped hot condensate shot out and burned the employee's right forearm. | |||||
| 2018-09-19 | Watford City | North Dakota | Spartan Companies, LLC | Ankle(s) | Bending, crawling, reaching, twisting-single episode |
| An employee was turning quickly to catch a vender's attention when she fractured her ankle. | |||||
| 2018-09-11 | Watford City | North Dakota | WC Striegel | Hand(s) | Struck by shifting load during transport, roadway |
| An employee was riding in the back of a company work truck when a pipe roller made contact with his hand, causing multiple fractures. | |||||
| 2018-07-23 | Watford City | North Dakota | Select Energy Services, LLC | Upper and lower limb(s) | Indirect exposure to electricity, greater than 220 volts |
| An employee was acting as a ground guide for a rough-terrain forklift that was loading material onto a flatbed truck. The forklift's boom came into contact with overhead power lines while the employee was touching the forklift. The employee suffered electrical burns to his hands and feet. | |||||
| 2018-07-15 | Watford City | North Dakota | Youngquist Brothers Oil & Gas | Multiple body parts | Fall onto or against object on same level, n.e.c. |
| An employee was working on the work-over rig floor when he slipped on some hydraulic fluid and fell into casing tongs, injuring his head and shoulder. | |||||
| 2018-06-09 | Watford City | North Dakota | Carstensen Contracting, Inc. | Multiple face locations | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
| An employee was cutting water pipes when the saw kicked back and cut the employee's face and chin. | |||||
| 2018-05-26 | Watford City | North Dakota | TechnipFMC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was unscrewing a 2-inch iron elbow from a 2-inch iron straight pipe. The pipe shifted, and his left index finger was pinched between the elbow and the pipe. His left index finger was amputated at the first knuckle. | |||||
| 2018-04-30 | Watford City | North Dakota | Vertical Transport North, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee had unstrapped some downhole tools that were brought to a wellsite. While another employee was going to get a forklift, the load shifted and smashed his finger between the load and the rub rail, resulting in a finger amputation. | |||||
| 2018-04-14 | Watford City | North Dakota | Adler Hot Oil Service, LLC | Multiple body parts | Struck by discharged or flying object |
| An employee was steaming out a line when a candy cane propelled out of the tank, striking the employee in the head and hands. The employee suffered a facial cut, facial burns, and a broken hand. | |||||
| 2018-04-10 | Watford City | North Dakota | Adler Hot Oil Service, LLC | Arm(s) | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle |
| An employee was injured when a candy cane in a Poseidon tank came loose and a ratchet strap that was holding the candy cane struck and lacerated his arm. | |||||
| 2018-03-12 | Watford City | North Dakota | Missouri Basin Well Service, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was using an outrigger for balance while he used his foot to clear snow from the area where the outrigger foot would sit. While the employee's hand was on the outrigger, the outrigger activated. The employee's right index finger that was inside a pin hole when it moved resulting in amputation. | |||||
| 2018-01-31 | Watford City | North Dakota | Cache Trucking, LLC | Pelvic region | Fall or jump curtailed by personal fall arrest system |
| An employee was in a harness and was raised in the air with a winch line to remove a T-valve on top of a pipe. As the operator raised him up, the counterweight of the winch became caught on the tubing board and built up tension on the winch line. As the tension built up on the winch, it gave way and catapulted the employee through the air. The employee suffered pelvic injuries. | |||||
| 2018-01-30 | Watford City | North Dakota | XTO Energy, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
| An employee was using a pipe wrench to loosen a fitting on a hot oil truck when the wrench slipped and amputated his left index finger. | |||||
| 2018-01-17 | Watford City | North Dakota | MBI Energy Services, Inc. | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| An employee was rigging down a workover rig from the operator's platform when the scoping ram hydraulic system failed, allowing the mast to fall to the ground. The employee fell approximately 45 inches off the rig platform to the ground, suffering fractures to the leg and face. | |||||
| 2018-01-08 | Watford City | North Dakota | Hiland Partners Holdings LLC | Multiple body parts | Struck by object or equipment |
| An employee was blowing off pressure on a field natural gas compressor when a pipe about 3 feet long pulled out of the threads and hit the employee, causing blunt force trauma to the face, arm, and shoulder. | |||||
| 2017-10-14 | Watford City | North Dakota | Blackhawk Energy Services | Fingertip(s) | Contact with objects and equipment |
| An employee's right index finger was crushed by a rig floor during rig-down operations, resulting in a fingertip amputation. | |||||
| 2017-09-27 | Watford City | North Dakota | SM Fencing & Energy Services | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
| An employee was working approximately 6 feet above ground level servicing a pumpjack when he lost his footing and fell to the ground, fracturing three ribs. | |||||
| 2017-09-22 | Watford City | North Dakota | Total Depth Well Services, Inc. | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| An employee was opening a valve while standing on the platform when the employee fell approximately 3.5 feet to the ground, breaking ribs. | |||||
| 2017-07-24 | Watford City | North Dakota | Treadstone Environmental Services, LLC | Forearm(s) | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
| An employee was washing out a hydrovac truck at a dump site. While holding the high pressure hose, he was pushed back but his feet were stuck in the mud so he fell back and lost control of the high pressure hose. High pressure water shot through his right forearm. | |||||
| 2017-05-19 | Watford City | North Dakota | Cache Trucking, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee's hand was crushed between a slip joint and a tubing stack that was being raised out of a well head. Two of the employee's fingers had to be surgically amputated. | |||||
| 2017-05-01 | Ford City | Pennsylvania | Natures Blend Wood Products | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
| An employee was gathering wooden door fronts from a conveyor when the employee's right middle and ring fingers were caught in the chain and sprocket along the conveyor line resulting in a laceration to the ring finger and a broken middle finger that required surgery. The chain and sprocket on the conveyor were unguarded at the time. | |||||
| 2017-02-11 | Watford City | North Dakota | Cruz Energy Service, LLC | Multiple face locations | Struck by object or equipment |
| An employee was adjusting the position of a mud tank during a rig-up when the tank's hook released and struck him. He suffered a chipped tooth and facial fracture. | |||||
| 2017-01-20 | Watford City | North Dakota | Badlands Power Fuels, LLC | Thigh(s) | Ran off driving surface, nonroadway |
| An employee was driving a manlift onto a flatbed trailer when the manlift and employee fell off the side of the trailer. The employee suffered a broken femur and gash to the head and eye area, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2017-01-06 | Watford City | North Dakota | Canary Drilling Service | Fingertip(s) | Struck by object or equipment dropped by injured worker |
| An employee was opening a valve he was repairing when he dropped the valve hand wheel. As he tried to catch it, the wheel crushed his middle fingertip, which had to be amputated. | |||||
| 2016-10-15 | Watford City | North Dakota | Halliburton Energy Service | Hand(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was conducting regular maintenance of a motor on the pumping equipment. The motor was running and the employee's hand was crushed. | |||||
| 2016-10-07 | Watford City | North Dakota | Border States Paving, Inc. | Hand(s) and arm(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery |
| An employee was applying a belt dressing to an aggregate conveyor when his arm was caught by the conveyor. He suffered arm and pinky finger fractures, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2016-08-03 | Ford City | Pennsylvania | Natures Blend Wood Products, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was operating a table saw using an 8-inch blade to cut a piece of wood. The wood piece became caught in the blade and was pulled in along with the employee's left index and middle fingers. His left middle fingertip was amputated. | |||||
| 2016-06-18 | Watford City | North Dakota | Sherwood Enterprises Inc | Nonclassifiable | Fire or explosion |
| An employee was operating a service rig with a snubbing crew when a flash fire or explosion occurred and severely burned the employee. | |||||
| 2016-06-07 | Watford City | North Dakota | F&D Oil Field Maintenance, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was using internal line clamps to drive the internals of piping joints when his fingers were caught between two pipes. His right-hand ring and middle fingertips were amputated. | |||||
| 2016-02-11 | Watford City | North Dakota | Hall Trucking, Inc. | Shoulder(s), including clavicle(s), scapula(e) | Struck or run over by rolling powered vehicle |
| An employee was hooking a winch cable from a truck to a crane while standing between them. The truck was positioned up hill from the crane. As the employee was connecting the winch line, the truck slid down the icy hill and pinned the employee against the crane. The employee suffered soft tissue damage in the left shoulder. | |||||
| 2015-11-23 | Watford City | North Dakota | Most Wanted Well Service, LLC | Face | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
| An employee was tripping production pipe in a well using a rig and traveling block. A pipe slipped in the well, causing a pressure change and blowout. The employee went down an escape line and fell at about 10 feet above the ground, fracturing and lacerating his face. | |||||
| 2015-10-22 | Watford City | North Dakota | Unit Drilling | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was operating a cat head on the drilling rig and amputated fingertips. | |||||
| 2015-02-16 | Watford City | North Dakota | WCE Oilfield Services | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, n.e.c. |
| Employee had a finger surgically amputated after sustaining an injury while filling a tanker truck with water. The employee's pinky ring caught on a grease fitting while he was climbing off the truck stripping the skin from the center knuckle to the tip of his finger. | |||||
| 2015-01-26 | Watford City | North Dakota | Nera Oilfield Services | Leg(s) | Slip without fall, n.e.c. |
| Two employees were pressure washing mud tanks. The injured employee slipped and grabbed the end of the wand barrel. He then came into contact with the pressurized water, resulting in a laceration on his leg. The water was considered dirty which led to a hospitalization as a precautionary measure. | |||||
| 2015-01-23 | Watford City | North Dakota | Childers Trucking, Inc. | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level 16 to 20 feet |
| An employee fell approximately 16 feet from the stairway of a drilling rig onto the ground below. The employee suffered multiple fractures and a collapsed lung. | |||||
| 2015-01-20 | Watford City | North Dakota | 4 T Construction, Inc. | BODY SYSTEMS | Direct exposure to electricity |
| An employee suffered a severe burn injury while working on a power pole when he made contact with a live wire. The employee was sent to Utah Burn Center. | |||||