Exposure to environmental heat outdoor · Effects of heat n.e.c.
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at NOV Tuboscope, 777 Diamondback Drilling, STANTON, TEXAS 79782
on — Effects of heat n.e.c., affecting the BODY SYSTEMS .
Final narrative
An employee was conducting field work at a customer's drilling rig when he became dehydrated. The employee was hospitalized.
An employee was adjusting a 12-inch x 40-foot pipe in the pipe pinning machine when their arm was caught between the pipe and the machine, resulting in a broken arm.
An employee was retrieving a flashlight from behind spare rack pieces when a metal rack piece struck the employee on his right leg, fracturing his right femur.
An employee was working on a chain connected to a sprocket of a machine. The chain caught the employee's left index and middle fingers and crushed them.
An employee was inspecting heavy weights in the yard when he experienced stomach aches and cramps, requiring hospitalization due to potential heat exhaustion.
On October 7, 2025, employee was installing mulch with a landscape crew. At around 2:15 PM, the employee took a break and started to feel cramping/pain. The employee was taken to the hospital with rhabdomyolysis due to heat exhaustion.
A temporary employee was on top of a cane wagon, throwing cane down to the ground (i.e., planting). He reached the end of the field row and started to feel ill. He experienced cramping and headaches due to heat exhaustion.
An employee was cutting wooden boards using a table saw when the glove on his left hand was caught by the blade, resulting in a partial fingertip amputation.
An employee was placing a board on top of a bundle of steel tubing. A crane was moving a bundle of steel that struck the employee and caught them against another bundle of steel tubing. The employee sustained a crushing injury and hematoma to the right upper leg.
A crane was hoisting a pipe. An employee was adjusting twisted lifting chains on the end of the pipe when the pipe was raised, causing the employee's hands to be caught between the chains and the pipe. The employee suffered injuries to the left index finger, left ring finger, right ring finger, and right index finger; the right index fingertip was amputated without bone loss.
During a routine inspection, an employee placed their hand on a pipe to check a weld. The pipe clamp activated, closed on the pipe, and trapped the employee's right middle finger, resulting in a partial amputation and fracture to the fingertip as well as a laceration to the ring finger.
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.