Crushed by pulley system that collapsed from top of derrick while rig was trying to lift 270,000 pounds of drill pipe from a hole 8,400-feet deep. Randall Taylor, 62 - 8/14/04 - Wolverine Drilling Inc. OSHA said the company did not ensure that the worker was using proper fall-protection gear. Fell 55 feet from platform on drill-rig derrick while handling hoisted drill pipes. Larry Hill, 42 - 11/7/05 - Union Drilling Inc. Electrocuted while doing maintenance on a light plant for a drill rig. Zac Mitchek, 42 - 11/25/05 - Patterson-UTI Drilling Co. Engulfed by 40,000 pounds of sand in a storage bin. Joshua Arvidson, 24 - 1/25/06 - Calfrac Well Services Ltd. Phillip Smith, 44 - 11/6/06 - Easy Street Crane Service - Crushed by truck. The victim’s father works in oil and gas. Struck by falling pulley on a well-servicing rig. Jacob Farmer, 19 - 11/16/06 - Leed Energy Services Inc. He and rest of crew were using a cutting tool to open the pipeline, and they didn’t expect it to contain pressurized gas. Ricky Erb, 19 - 11/27/06 - Schneider Energy Services - Head injury, blown out of 5-foot hole when a reportedly 40-year-old pipeline Pending ruptured. The list below includes the victims' names, age at time of death, date of the accident, company(s) involved, a description of the accident, and fines, if any. This list is almost certainly incomplete, due to loopholes in requirements for reporting fatalities. Some fines in the cases listed below are not directly related to fatalities sometimes investigators notice unrelated safety violations when they visit workplaces where workers have died. Some states choose to have the federal government handle worker safety regulation, and some create state agencies to handle it all the agencies tend to go by the nickname OSHA, after the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration. NOTE this list is a sidebar to the main story - "Disposable Workers of the Oil and Gas Fields."Īt least 89 people died on the job in the Interior West’s oil and gas industry from 2000 to 2006, in a variety of accidents, including 90-foot falls, massive explosions, poison gas inhalations and crushings by safety harnesses. Like Tweet Email Print Subscribe Donate Now
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