Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Brigade Energy Services, LLC, Rig #33, Kinder Morgan-SACROC 114-2, Scurry County, 30 Miles S. of Snyder, SNYDER, TEXAS 79549
on — Fractures, affecting the leg(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was disassembling a guardrail on a rig floor when his safety harness became caught on the guardrail and the weight pulled him down to the ground, breaking his left leg. He was hospitalized.
HospitalizedLeg(s), unspecifiedOil drilling rigs and machinery
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On November 14, 2023, an employee was receiving a delivery from a truck when some of the merchandise fell from the truck s lift and struck him. He then fell to the ground and his head struck the sidewalk, resulting in an injury that required hospitalization.
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