| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-07-13 | Mentone | Tx | Trigger Energy, LLC | Head and neck | Fire |
| During the process of nipping down the well head, a flash fire occurred and an employee was burned on the face and neck. | |||||
| 2020-01-18 | Mentone | Texas | Brazos Midstream | Brain | Contact with objects and equipment |
| An employee was struck in the head by a pipe while servicing a compressor, requiring hospitalization for a head injury. A hard hat was not worn at the time of the incident. | |||||
| 2019-09-11 | Mentone | Texas | Brigad Energy Services, LLC | Skull | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle |
| Employees were rigging up a work-over rig. One of the rig wires caught on a 1-inch ball valve and the pressure from the rig rising caused the valve to be sent up as a projectile. It struck an employee on the right side of the face and forehead, fracturing his skull. He was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2019-09-08 | Mentone | Texas | Dynamic Oilfield Services, LLC | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Fall from collapsing structure or equipment |
| Two employees were rigging up centrifugal equipment. One employee was on the solids control equipment stand when it gave way, causing him to fall and sustain three fractured ribs and a punctured left lung. The other employee was on the ground near the stand when it collapsed, resulting in a fracture to his lower left leg. | |||||
| 2019-08-15 | Mentone | Texas | Cornerstone Synergy | Hand(s) | Struck by discharged object or substance |
| An employee sandblasting a pipeline. The sandblasting medium was not blowing well, so he approached the compressor; when the hose was disconnected, the machine sandblasted his left hand. He was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2019-07-30 | Mentone | Texas | Aveda Transportation | Nonclassifiable | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was standing at ground level, unloading a truck, when he fell into a cellar. | |||||
| 2019-07-21 | Mentone | Texas | Double A Rental Inc | Foot (feet) | Struck by falling object or equipment |
| An employee was near a stand that was holding a swivel when the stand fell onto the employee's foot behind the steel toe cap, causing a laceration. | |||||
| 2019-06-02 | Mentone | Texas | Glezz Trucking LLC | Nonclassifiable | Nonroadway incident involving motorized land vehicle |
| An employee was involved in a truck accident on a private road and was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2019-04-09 | Mentone | Texas | Linequest, LLC | Fingertip(s) | Contact with objects and equipment |
| An employee was cleaning out a frac tank when a tube came into contact with the opening on top of the tank. The employee's right index finger was crushed, and the tip was medically amputated. | |||||
| 2019-02-04 | Mentone | Texas | Valerus Compression Services LP | Elbow(s) | Struck by swinging or slipping object, other than handheld, n.e.c. |
| An employee was blowing down a vessel through a stinger pipe that was pointing up. As he reached with his right hand and opened the ball valve to release pressure, the stinger pipe swung to the left and struck his left elbow, causing multiple fractures. | |||||
| 2018-09-22 | Mentone | Texas | Trojan Tubular Services, LLC | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was setting up rig equipment and pinched his right middle finger between the pipe rack and the laydown machine index arm resulting in a fingertip amputation. | |||||
| 2018-09-05 | Mentone | Texas | Schlumberger Technology Corporation | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
| An employee was using pipe wrenches to disassemble a 16-gun assembly. After pulling a wire line out of the hole, the employee lost consciousness due to heat stress. | |||||
| 2018-08-22 | Mentone | Texas | American Pipeline and Construction, LLC | Nonclassifiable | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle |
| Three employees were performing maintenance on a pipeline by using a pig to clean the line when a hose connected to the pressurized line flew back and struck two employees. The air from the hose injured the third employee. Two of the employees were hospitalized with broken bones and abrasions. | |||||
| 2018-07-12 | Mentone | Texas | Powersecure Inc. | Lower leg(s) | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
| Employees were rolling telephone poles off a trailer. As a pole came off the truck, it landed on an employee's leg, breaking his tibia. | |||||
| 2018-05-26 | Mentone | Texas | Schlumberger Technologies Corporation | Forearm(s) | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle |
| Employees were releasing pressure from a well, moving lines from one well to another and placing a cap on the well-pumping lines. A crown valve was open and blew up. One employee sustained a broken right forearm, a second employee sustained a head injury and a third employee sustained an injury requiring surgery. | |||||
| 2018-05-09 | Mentone | Texas | Anadarko Petroleum Corporation | Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| An employee was attempting to enter a pick-up when he lost his footing, fell, and struck his right side flank on the side step of the vehicle. He suffered a right kidney contusion and hematuria. | |||||
| 2018-04-11 | Mentone | Texas | Trinidad Drilling Limited Partnership | Hand(s) and wrist(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was attempting to load a derrick board onto a flatbed haul truck with a forklift. His hand was between the forklift fork and derrick board as he tried to remove a rope from the bottom section of the derrick tarp. The derrick board then shifted, catching his right hand and wrist between the derrick board and forklift fork. He suffered fractures to the right wrist and hand. | |||||
| 2018-01-13 | Mentone | Texas | NorAm Drilling Company | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping |
| An employee was tripping drill pipe out of a hole at a drilling rig when he tripped and put his hands out to catch himself. While his hands were on the ground, the pipe fell on and cut his right pinky finger. His pinky finger was surgically amputated at the knuckle. | |||||
| 2017-08-31 | Mentone | Texas | Precision Drilling Company Rig #565 | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was changing a saver sub, using a sling around a grabber box, when the rating tag on the sling was pinched under the grabber box. The employee was using a wrench to try and pry out the rating tag when the grabber box fell and caught the employee's fingers, amputating the first digit of the right middle finger. | |||||
| 2017-05-20 | Mentone | Texas | SV Reliable Transport LLC | Multiple body parts | Ignition of vapors, gases, or liquids |
| An employee was pulling water/fluid from a frac tank when he noticed a leak on a neighboring tank. He tried to stop the leak by hitting the valve with an end cap he found on the ground. When the cap hit the valve, it sparked and caused a flash fire. He suffered burns to his face, chest, and hands. | |||||
| 2017-03-16 | Mentone | Texas | C&J Energy Services, Inc. | Leg(s) | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee stepped off of the back of a trailer and placed his foot on the bumper. His foot slipped and was caught between the bumper and the trailer resulting in a fracture. | |||||
| 2017-01-03 | Mentone | Texas | SwiftWater Energy Services | Forearm(s) | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| An employee was standing on the edge of a containment wall while changing a pump when he slipped and fell 1.5 feet from the wall and fractured his left forearm. | |||||
| 2016-03-14 | Mentone | Texas | Southwest electric | Lower leg(s) | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle |
| Workers were testing the rotation on a motor when a shaft cover on the machine became dislodged and hit a nearby employee in the left lower leg. The resulting impact fractured the employee's tibia and fibula, requiring surgery and hospitalization. | |||||
| 2015-06-02 | Mentone | Texas | Basic Energy Services | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Jack-knifed or overturned, roadway |
| On or about 0530 hrs on the 2nd day of June 2015, an employee was injured when the vehicle he was driving overturned on a lease road approximately five miles east of Mentone Texas. The employee was hospitalized with three broken ribs on the right side of the thorax and a broken rib on the left side of the thorax. | |||||
| 2015-01-05 | Mentone | Texas | Precision Drilling Corp. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
| An employee was exposed to a pinch point hazard when his left thumb was caught between the ST-80 and another metal object. | |||||