CHANUTE, KANSAS—
QES Pressure Pumping LLC
Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at QES Pressure Pumping LLC, 1322 S. Grant, CHANUTE, KANSAS 66720 on — Fractures, affecting the thigh(s).
Final narrative
An employee was attaching a cable to a plug container to move it to the main rig floor. The employee had attached a hook to the plug container and was turning to continue pulling it when the employee stepped backwards into a pipe nest, falling approximately 2 feet and landing on a drill collar or pipe. The employee suffered a contusion and small crack to the right femur, requiring hospitalization.
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CANTON, OKLAHOMA—
QES Pressure Pumping, LLC
An employee had just replaced a rubber O-ring on a manifold and was trying to put the bull plug back on the missile when it slipped off and took the employee's hand down, striking it against the flat metal plate below. As a result, the employee suffered a partial fingertip amputation.
WELEETKA, OKLAHOMA—
QES Pressure Pumping LLC
An employee was holding a flashlight for another employee who was doing maintenance on a downhole sucker rod pump. The second employee was installing a plunger back into the rod pump, using a pry bar. The bar slipped and the plunger was propelled out of the pump toward the first employee. It caught his right hand and carried it downward, pinching the third finger against the fender of the pump. He suffered an avulsion and partial amputation of the finger.
CALUMET, OKLAHOMA—
QES Pressure Pumping, LLC
A cement crew had finished a surface cement job and was preparing to rig down the cement head and equipment. An employee was preparing to remove the cementing head and manifold from the casing. The drilling rig crew loosened the chain boomer and lifted the casing to remove the slips. When the rig operator lifted the casing, the hook on the chain boomer broke, striking the employee in the hard hat and knocking him to the rig floor. He hit his head on the floor, losing consciousness and suffering a head laceration.
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