| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-11-06 | Monroe City | Mo | TODD CREASON CONSTRUCTION, INC. | Multiple body parts | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| On November 6, 2021, an employee was spray painting a petroleum pipeline for rust prevention. The pipeline is supported by wood log cribbing and subject to move when the temperature rises. The pipeline fell and pinned the employee down in the excavation. The employee sustained several broken ribs, breathing obstruction, contusion, and loss of consciousness. He was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2021-05-13 | Big Lake | Tx | BP Surface Solutions, LLC | Multiple body parts | Explosion |
| A five-man crew had been subcontracted by Laredo Petroleum to replace the fire tubes on a heater treater and clean the inside of the tank. Three employees with Dorado Construction Group were contracted as a roustabout crew to clean the tank and replace the fire tubes, one employee of Mulholland Energy Services was contracted to operate the vacuum truck and remove the sludge from the tank, and one employee of Permian Service Co., LLC was hired to operate a hot oil truck to provide water to the r | |||||
| 2020-09-13 | Mobile | Al | Amspec LLC | Hand(s) | Ignition of vapors, gases, or liquids |
| An employee was running a liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) standard with laboratory equipment when the equipment was knocked off the counter, causing the quick connect to fail. LPG then released and was ignited by the equipment's heating element. The employee received first and second degree burns on the right and left hands. | |||||
| 2020-08-26 | Tamaqua | Pa | Silberline Manufacturing Company Inc. | Multiple body parts | Fire |
| On August 26, 2020, an employee was cleaning an industrial mixer when a flash fire erupted within the mixer and burned the employee's face, neck, and hands. The cleaning process involves manually scraping a mixture of aluminum paste with petroleum distillate carrier. Isopropyl alcohol is then used to wash the mixer. | |||||
| 2020-08-26 | Wynnewood | Pa | SB Capital Group II LLC | Lumbar region | Nonroadway noncollision incident, n.e.c. |
| An employee was sitting on the liquid petroleum tank of a forward-tipping forklift, unloading a safe into a dumpster. The forklift tipped forward. When it tipped back to a neutral position, the employee suffered a lower back injury. | |||||
| 2019-09-02 | Baytown | Texas | Exxon Mobil Baytown Refinery | Multiple body parts | Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue |
| An employee came in contact with process fluid at a petroleum refinery. The employee suffered burns to the right arm and torso and was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2019-08-21 | La Joya | Texas | Terra Firma Materials | Arm(s) | Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue |
| An employee was offloading petroleum gas from a tanker when the oil-based petroleum gas liquid sprayed him as he removed the hose. He sustained chemical burns to both arms. | |||||
| 2019-08-10 | Port Allen | Louisiana | Safeway Transportation, L.L.C. | BODY SYSTEMS | Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode |
| An employee was driving a trailer to deliver liquefied petroleum gas to customers when the gas leaked and the employee was exposed to gas inhalation. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2019-01-03 | Holiday | Florida | AEC SERVICES, INC. | Nonclassifiable | Explosion |
| An employee was installing petroleum piping and working with a dispenser sump at a work site when a small explosion occurred, causing burns to his body. | |||||
| 2017-05-03 | Houston | Texas | HMT Pasadena Tank Corporation | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| An employee was blasting a girder for a petroleum tank that was stationed on a trailer in a blasting booth. He slipped on grit that was on the surface of the girder and fell about 40 inches to the ground on his left side, breaking ribs and injuring his internal organs. He was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2015-12-03 | Baytown | Texas | Savage Refinery Services | Foot (feet) | Pedestrian struck by rail vehicle-transportation incident |
| An employee was loading railcars with petroleum coke. As he was coupling up the railcars, his left foot got caught under the railcar. He called out to the locomotive operator to back the railcar in the other direction to relieve the pressure off his foot, which was crushed in the process and required hospitalization. | |||||
| 2015-10-15 | Corpus Christi | Texas | Flint Hills Resources Corpus Christi Refinery | Multiple face locations | Struck by discharged or flying object, n.e.c. |
| On 10/15/2015, at about 10:00 p.m., an employee was taking a sample from a petroleum unit of the refinery. During the sampling process, the glass bottle ruptured and broke. The glass debris injured the employee's face and left eye. | |||||
| 2015-02-11 | Delaware City | Delaware | PBF Energy, Inc. | Ankle(s) and leg(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping, n.e.c. |
| An employee tripped and fell to the ground. The employee landed on his knees in a pile of hot petroleum coke. The employee sustained burns on both legs from the coke, and possibly the hot steam. The employee was taken by ambulance to Christiana Hospital, and later transferred to Crozer-Chester Medical Center in Chester, Pennsylvania. The employee sustained 2nd degree burns on his legs, and 3rd degree burns on his ankles. | |||||