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Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

Helmerich & Payne, Inc.

Fall on same level due to slipping · Fractures

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Helmerich & Payne, Inc., 5401 S. Hattie Ave., OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA 73129 on — Fractures, affecting the hip(s).

An employee was walking from a front office to a mailbox located outside when the employee slipped and fell to the floor at the front door. The employee was hospitalized and had surgery for a fractured right hip.

Hospitalized Hip(s) Floor, unspecified

Helmerich & Payne, Inc.

An employee had been working on mud pumps. While taking a break, the employee became ill and experienced various symptoms of heat-related illness including cramping, dizziness, slurred speech, and shaking.

Helmerich & Payne Inc.

A crew was installing skid rails. The injured employee was checking the alignment of two sections of skid rails when the pieces moved and his right middle and ring fingers were caught in the pin hole connection of the two sections. Both fingertips were amputated.

Helmerich & Payne, Inc.

An employee was tripping pipe out of a hole on a 96 F day when he passed out due to heat exhaustion.

Helmerich & Payne, Inc.

An employee was caught between pieces of drilling equipment (ST-80 and mast leg) while making a connection on the rig floor, resulting in a lacerated liver.

Helmerich & Payne Inc.

An employee was racking drill pipe on the rig floor. As a stand of drill pipe was being set down on the rig floor, the employee slipped and fell. The stand of pipe was set down on his left hand resulting in a partial amputation to the middle finger.

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AT & T

An employee was stepping out of a car when they slipped and fell on ice, resulting in a femur fracture.

REYNOLDS FORD NORMAN

An employee was closing up for the weekend when they slipped on oil and brake fluid and fell. The employee suffered a leg fracture.

The Westervelt Company

An employee was working in the forest flagging an area to be harvested. He took a step and his foot slipped on a stick hidden under the leaves, causing him to fall to the ground. He landed on his right foot/lower leg resulting in a fractured tibia.

The Wyndmoor of Marion (OH), LLC

An employee was inspecting an apartment to ensure it was ready for a new resident to move in. The carpet in the apartment had been recently cleaned and was still wet. As the employee went from the carpet to the tiled floor of the bathroom, they slipped and fell, resulting in a torn left hamstring.

U.S. Postal Service

An employee was delivering a letter along a rural carrier route when she stepped on an ice-covered snow drift, slipped, and fell to the ground. The employee sustained a right hip fracture that required surgery.

Hall Drilling, LLC

An employee was stepping down off a 6-inch containment platform to finish loading his truck, when his right ankle rolled. The employee sustained a fractured tibia and fibula at the right ankle and required surgery.

C. Miller Drilling Inc

A service crew was pulling a pump and motor from a well. After breaking a joint of pipe loose from another joint, an employee grabbed the chain tongs to prevent the pipe from spinning in the well, so the crew could continue taking it apart. The bolt that attaches the chain to the handle of the chain tongs broke, causing the chain to swing around and strike the employee's lower right leg. The chain severely punctured his leg and fractured his tibia.

Amercian Well Service Llp

An employee was working to remove a stuck fish tool from a drill shoe. Their thumb was struck by a hammer, resulting in amputation.

Axis Energy Services

An employee arrived on location and loaded a blow-out-preventer (BOP) on a 1-ton flatbed truck. While standing on the flatbed securing the the BOP, the employee stepped into a void/hole on the flatbed surface. This caused him to lose balance and fall off the truck bed with his leg still caught in the hole. As a result, he sustained fractures to his left leg.

ROBINSON DRILLING OF TEXAS, LTD

An employee was rigging up a location. He was using an Allen wrench to free up rotation and start the drawworks engine manually. The engine rotated and his left little finger became caught between the Allen wrench and the engine. The employee sustained an amputation to his little finger and fractures to his wrist.

Rae Corporation

An employee was helping to move a 1,300-pound coil on a cart. The steel caster hit a crack in the concrete, the weld holding the caster onto the cart broke, and the coil and cart tipped over onto the employee. He was hospitalized with a laceration on his forehead and a pelvic fracture on his right side.

Meeco Sullivan

An employee was cutting a piece of metal rod with a metal cutting machine. His right middle finger became caught between the rod and the machine's table. The employee's fingertip was partially amputated.

Edward Jones Investments

An employee was working at her desk. She went to stand up and fell to the floor beside the desk. The employee sustained a hip displacement and required surgery.

Burgess Manufacturing of Oklahoma Inc.

An employee was processing wood boards at a chop saw when the saw malfunctioned and the blade cut her left hand and fingers. She was hospitalized and her little finger was surgically amputated.