Ignition of vapors, gases, or liquids · Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Basic Energy Services, One Mile West of Highway Eight 2100, FORT WORTH, TEXAS 76102
on — Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified, affecting the nonclassifiable.
Final narrative
An employee was welding on a pipe bracket between a pumphouse and tank batteries at a salt water disposal site. A flash fire burned the employee.
HospitalizedNonclassifiableAromatics and hydrocarbon derivatives, except halogenated, unspecified
A well service floor hand was connecting pipe to a power swivel. The employee's left thumb was caught and crushed between the tubing elevators and a lifting cable. The employee was hospitalized, undergoing a surgical amputation to the thumb.
An employee was holding an apparatus designed to help pull a piece of equipment when his thumb was caught and crushed. The employee sustained an amputation to the nailbed of the left thumb.
An employee was cleaning a cordless drill. As they applied brake fluid to the drill and pulled the trigger, the fluid ignited. The employee suffered burns to the face, hands, and arms.
An employee was spraying glue to the floor of an enclosed cargo trailer. The fumes made contact with the heater causing a flash fire. The employee suffered burns to their face and right hand.
An employee was replacing a valve in the gas line to the fryer. The shutoff valve malfunctioned resulting in a gas leak that then ignited. The employee sustained burns requiring hospitalization.
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.
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.
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.
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.
After cutting a slab of beef short ribs, an employee turned to grab the pieces he had cut and his right hand contacted the saw blade. The employee sustained an amputation to his right index finger.
An employee was unloading a carpet pad from a truck when they fell from the truck dock to the concrete below, resulting in five fractured ribs and an injury to their left lung.
An employee was walking up a walkway to enter a building through the back entrance when she tripped over the lip of the cement ramp. The employee fell and sustained a fractured right hip.