BIG LAKE, TEXAS—
Cactus Drilling Company, LLC
Contact with hot objects or substances · Thermal burns second degree
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Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Cactus Drilling Company, LLC, SRH-1449 HM RM -33, BIG LAKE, TEXAS 76932 on — Thermal burns second degree, affecting the Head and extremities.
Final narrative
An employee was inspecting the liners of a mud pump that was making noise. The machine was shut down. As the pump was idling down, the inspection plate blew and knocked the employee back. Hot gear oil from the pump blew onto him, causing second-degree burns to his left arm and the left side of his face and ear. The employee was hospitalized.
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SAN AUGUSTINE, TEXAS—
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An employee was watching the landing joint being lowered into the rotary table when it clipped the slip bowl, causing the slip bowl to flip over and strike the employee's legs. The employee's right femur was fractured and they sustained a fracture to the left leg below the knee. The employee was hospitalized.
LAREDO, TEXAS—
Cactus Drilling Company, LLC
A 5.5-inch production casing was being rolled. An employee was loading it onto a hydraulic catwalk when their left little fingertip was crushed between casing and the casing roller ramp. The fingertip was amputated behind the nailbed.
DOYLINE, LOUISIANA—
Cactus Drilling Company, LLC
An employee was pulling back a stand of heavy-weight drill pipe so it could be racked in the derrick. While the driller was slacking off with the top-drive, the injured employee unlatched the drill pipe elevators and pulled the pipe toward himself. The pipe came at him faster than expected and as he tried to get out of the way, the pipe hit his left ankle/leg and fractured the left tibia.
PECOS, TEXAS—
Cactus Drilling Company, LLC
An employee pulled a stand of drill pipe back and had just finished pushing it back into a "finger" before securing it with rope. The driller was coming down with top drives and blocks. A gust of wind blew the employee's secondary retention into the Kelly hose clamp. As a result, the top drive pulled the cable and the employee down into the steel frame of the derrick board. The employee's left hip and right femur were fractured.
OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA—
Cactus Drilling Company, LLC
An employee was slacking off with the top drive and blocks so the elevators could be latched to a drill collar on the hydraulic catwalk. The employee went to grab the horns of the elevators to help maneuver them around the pipe. His left middle fingertip was crushed between the elevators and lift sub on the drill collar resulting in an amputation.
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