MIDLAND, TEXAS—
Helmerich & Payne International Drilling Co.
Fall through surface or existing opening 11 to 15 feet · Skull fracture and intracranial injury
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Helmerich & Payne International Drilling Co., Tubb - Vaughn 21 G 107 H, H 1088, I 1098, MIDLAND, TEXAS 79707 on — Skull fracture and intracranial injury, affecting the brain.
Final narrative
Employees were rigging down. The injured employee was hooking up a flow line to a manifold. When he stepped back, he fell through a gap in the floor of the shaker, landing on his head on the ground about 12 feet below. He suffered multiple skull fractures and bleeding on the brain and was hospitalized.
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