DOVER, OKLAHOMA—
Power Rig, LLC
Struck by running powered equipment during maintenance, cleaning, testing · Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Power Rig, LLC, Power Rig #1, DOVER, OKLAHOMA 73734 on — Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified, affecting the Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s).
Final narrative
An employee was wiping oil off an engine radiator housing with a rag. The radiator fan sucked the rag through the shroud/guard along with three of the employee's fingers. The employee sustained amputations to his left index, middle, and ring fingertips.
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An employee was working on an oil and gas drilling rig and tripping pipe out of the hole. After the employee finished work and took off his gloves, he noticed his fingers had frostbite.
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Power Rig LLC
A crew was pulling pipe out of the hole and laying pipe/joint one at a time. The injured employee was laying down a drill collar after removing it when the collar swung and pinched their left little finger against a stationary part. The finger was amputated at the first joint.
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Power Rig LLC
An employee was holding a tong that was gripping a string of pipe that was within a mouse hole on a drilling rig. The crew was trying to remove 2 of the 3 sections of pipe from a string. On the third attempt to attach a pipe spinner unit, the pipe spinner unit impacted the employee's left thumb. The thumb was broken and lacerated.
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Power Rig LLC
An employee was helping rig up a drilling rig. While he was driving a securement pin on an upper spreader beam, another spreader beam (stacked on the first one) slid over and struck his left foot. The foot was broken.
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