Machine Injury & Accidents

Date	City	State	Employer	Body Part	Event
2021-09-30	Stanton	Tx	PetroLegacy Energy, LLC	Multiple trunk locations	Struck by discharged object or substance
A subcontractor was monitoring a wireline. Employees were filling lubricant to start a pressure test when a piece of iron flew out of the lubricant, striking the injured employee on the right side of the chest. The employee suffered three broken ribs and a hematoma on his liver.
2021-08-05	New Stanton	Pa	UPS	Brain	Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
An employee was walking on a loading dock when they slipped and fell to the bottom of the dock, resulting in possible head injuries.
2021-07-14	Stanton	Tx	Byrd Oilfield Services, LLC	Fingertip(s)	Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects
Employees were creating a joint in casing. When the employees reversed out the tongs, the tension in the casing pushed the tongs toward the injured employee. The injured employee's finger was pinched between the casing safety door and the tongs and their fingertip was amputated.
2021-07-06	Stanton	Tx	FNF Construction, Inc.	BODY SYSTEMS	Exposure to environmental heat
An employee was working alongside the paver in the heat and direct sun. Around 4:00 p.m., the employee began to feel ill. The employee was hospitalized for heat exhaustion.
2021-06-20	New Stanton	Pa	United Natural Foods, Inc.	Brain	Nonroadway collision with object other than vehicle, n.e.c.
An employee was pushing an empty pallet with a pallet jack when the empty pallet got stuck on the pallet jack. The employee tried to get the pallet off the pallet jack while near a post. The pallet jack struck the post and the employee fell off the pallet jack, resulting in a head laceration and possible concussion.
2021-06-09	New Stanton	Pa	United Natural Food, Inc.	Leg(s)	Nonroadway collision with object other than vehicle, n.e.c.
An employee was using a pallet jack to load a trailer. The jack ran over a piece of broken pallet and the handle of the pallet jack struck the employee in the leg. The employee was hospitalized, suffering from internal bleeding.
2020-10-08	New Stanton	Pa	Murrysville Machinery Company LLC.	Leg(s)	Struck by falling object or equipment
A piece of steel fell and broke an employee's leg.
2020-08-20	New Stanton	Pa	C H & D Enterprises, Inc.	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
An employee was post-tensioning an arch culvert. The post-tensioning machine caught and injured the employee's left thumb. The employee was hospitalized.
2020-08-08	Stanton	Tx	Patterson-UTI Drilling Company LLC	Lumbar region	Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
An employee swung a sledge hammer to hit a hammer union. The sledge hammer missed and caused the employee to lose balance and fall approximately 3 feet, hitting his back on a mud pump module and suction pipe. The employee sustained fractures to the L2, L3, and L4 vertebrae.
2020-04-16	Stanton	Texas	Forza Pipeline Services	Lower leg(s)	Struck by swinging or slipping object, other than handheld, n.e.c.
An employee was installing a pipeline in a trench. The employee coiled tubing on a spool and was attempting to tie in two pipe ends when the pipe slipped and flexed, striking and fracturing the employee's fibula.
2020-03-03	Stanton	Texas	Integrity Services, LLC	Lower leg(s)	Struck by swinging or slipping object, other than handheld, n.e.c.
Employees were laying down an 8" drill collar from the catwalk using the main rig hoist. During this, the injured employee was placing a 3x6 wooden board under the collar. When the collar came in contact with the board, it caused the end of the board to rise up, partially degloving the employee's left shin that required a skin graft.
2020-01-11	Stanton	Texas	Latshaw Drilling	Foot (feet)	Struck by falling object or equipment
An employee was working on equipment when it fell and struck his foot causing a fracture. The employee was hospitalized.
2019-09-16	Stanton	Texas	Viva Energy Services LLC	Leg(s)	Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
An employee was pulling tubing at a well site when an object fell off the derrick and punctured the employee's leg.
2019-08-14	Stanton	Texas	Targa WestTex LLC - Buffalo Gas Plant	Multiple body parts	Vehicle or machinery fire
An employee was changing a condensate filter. A fire erupted, burning the employee's arms, legs, neck, and face.
2019-07-12	Stanton	Texas	E&A Welding and Oil Services	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
An employee was using a tag line on a pipe with a sling. The pipe slipped out of the sling and pinched the employee's hand between the pipe and the pipe stand resulting in smashed fingers.
2019-07-01	Stanton	Texas	Double K Drilling LLC	Leg(s)	Struck by object or equipment
An employee was flagging a forklift driver when metal slag broke off a piece of steel being welded and hit the employee in the leg, causing a fracture. The employee was hospitalized.
2019-04-30	Stanton	Texas	Reagent Chemical & Research	Nonclassifiable	Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode
An employee was transferring hydrogen chloride (HCl) from one container to another when the HCl sprayed into the employee's face. The employee was hospitalized for inhalation burns.
2019-04-19	Stanton	Texas	Liberty Pump and Supply Co	Multiple body parts	Other fall to lower level
An employee on the walking beam of a pumping unit had just removed the horse head of a pump jack when a bolt on the beam broke and the beam tilted over. The employee slid down the beam until he hit a motor at the bottom of the pumping unit and fell to the ground approximately 6 to 7 feet below. He was hospitalized with a head laceration and left leg laceration.
2018-09-05	Stanton	Texas	Martin County Environmental, LLC	Nonclassifiable	Explosion
An employee was burned in an explosion that happened while a vacuum trailer was being power-washed.
2018-09-04	Stanton	Texas	Lewis Casing Crews, Inc.	Lower leg(s)	Struck by object or equipment
An employee was operating the tongs at a rig when the winch line broke and the equipment struck the employee's lower right leg, breaking the tibia. The employee was hospitalized.
2018-08-05	Stanton	Texas	Reagent Chemical and Research INC	Leg(s)	Other fall to lower level
An employee slipped on a loading rack and fell down the stairs, fracturing his leg.
2018-05-30	Stanton	Texas	Basic Energy Services	Nonclassifiable	Nonclassifiable
An employee suffered an injury while conducting normal duties on a well servicing rig.
2018-04-05	Stanton	North Dakota	GSD Trading USA, Inc.	Ankle(s)	Fall on same level due to slipping
An employee slipped on ice and fractured his ankle.
2017-07-29	Stanton	Texas	Eastham Drilling Inc.	Multiple trunk locations	Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects
While rigging up the top drive, employees needed to move the Kelly hose into position. They had to swing the ST-80 all the way around. The injured employee was in a crush point, and his foot was caught while stepping out of the crush point. The ST-80 was pulled over, trapping the employee's body between the ST-80 and the derrick leg. The employee sustained three broken ribs, a lacerated liver, and a collapsed lung, all on the right side.
2017-07-13	Stanton	Texas	Pioneer Natural Resources Company	Fingertip(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
An employee was performing maintenance on a hot oil unit when his right pinky fingertip was caught and amputated on the pump.
2017-03-29	New Stanton	Pennsylvania	C. H. & D. Enterprises	Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders	Fall on same level due to slipping
An employee was working to install a box culvert. He was walking across a stream when he slipped and fell onto a hardline discharge hose from a pump, suffering internal bleeding.
2017-01-31	Stanton	Texas	Lone Star Well Services	Hand(s)	Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects
An employee was assisting in rigging up and rigging down when their left hand was caught between the blow out preventer (BOP) and elevators. The employee sustained lacerations, contusions and fractures to their hand.
2016-09-22	Stanton	Delaware	Diamond Materials, LLC	Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders	Vehicle struck object or animal in roadway
An employee was operating a backhoe, shoveling milling material off the road, when the shovel became caught on a manhole road protrusion. This contact jarred the backhoe and the employee with great force, causing a liver injury where the seat belt connection contacted the employee near the right abdominal area.
2016-07-07	New Stanton	Pennsylvania	SuperValu	Lower leg(s)	Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
An employee was standing on a fuel island and climbing into a truck when he missed the grab handle and fell, breaking his tibia.
2016-05-03	New Stanton	Pennsylvania	Supervalue Pittsburgh DC	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
An employee was lifting a battery out of a forklift with a hydraulic chain lift system and crushed his finger between a chain and the battery. The injury required surgical amputation of the finger.
2016-04-20	Stanton	Texas	Basic Energy Services	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
An employee was working on a workover rig. While the crew was running pipe in the bore hole, the employee's hand was caught between two strands of pipe. The distal phalanges of the employee's right-hand middle finger was crushed and partially amputated.
2015-12-14	New Stanton	Pennsylvania	Cleveland Brothers	Back, including spine, spinal cord	Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
While an employee was climbing into a fork truck, he reached for the grab handle and it broke off. He fell 4 feet, landed on his tailbone, and suffered a vertebral compression fracture.
2015-09-08	Stanton	Texas	JB Hunt Gas and Oil Drilling	Brain	Fall on same level, n.e.c.
An employee was changing a swab on a mud pump using a wrench to stroke the pump. The pipe wrench slipped and he fell backwards off the skid to the ground. His back and head struck the ground and he injured his chest. He sustained a head laceration, upper right bicep cut, chest contusion, and concussion.
2015-06-03	Stanton	Texas	WTG Gas Processing	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
On or about 3 June 2015 at 0715 hrs an employee suffered an amputation of the distal portion of his middle phalanges left hand. The employee was attempting to replace a flange when the flange slipped and pinched his phalanges between it and the structure he was placing the flange on.
2015-05-26	New Stanton	Pennsylvania	Ryder System, Inc.	Nonclassifiable	Struck by dislodged flying object, particle
An employee was struck by fragmented pieces of a grinding disk and was hospitalized as a result.
2015-04-21	Stanton	Texas	Pro Petro Services	Fingertip(s)	Nonclassifiable
An employee lost a fingertip on a drill collar.
2015-03-12	Stanton	North Dakota	SPF Energy, Inc.	BODY SYSTEMS	Exposure to other harmful substances
An employee was unloading fuel into a tank at a customer location. He was walking while offloading and talking with another employee when he lost consciousness. A local bystander attempted CPR. Employee was taken to the hospital.