An operations manager for a well servicing company in Texas, died when a length of pipe mounted on top of a skid-mounted mud pump broke loose and struck him in the head.

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• Corporate Authors:
  Texas Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (Texas FACE) ; Texas Workers’ Compensation Commission
• Description:
  On October 29, 1998, a 63 year-old male operations manager (the victim) died when a length of pipe mounted on top of a skid-mounted mud pump broke loose and struck him in the head. The work crew was in the process of sealing a well. They had finished pumping in cement and were starting to pump in water to displace the cement down to 10,000 feet. As the operations manager leaned over and looked into one of the two mud mixing tanks, he was struck on the side of the head by a length of pipe (return line) from the pump that had not been secured. The TX FACE investigator concluded that to reduce the likelihood of similar occurrences, employers should: 1. Ensure all piping (discharge and return lines) that are mounted on top of mud pump tanks are secured. 2. Develop a checklist for mud pump operators and supervisors to ensure that all the steps necessary to conduct a cementing operation have been performed.
• Content Notes:
  Precise Publication Date provided by FACE program
  
  report only indicates "1999"
  
  
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Occupational Health Oil And Gas Industry Personal Protective Equipment Safety Safety Management Workplace
• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Accident-prevention Injuries Injury-prevention Oil-industry OSHA Region 6 Personal-protection Personal-protective-equipment Protective-equipment Protective-measures Safety-education Safety-equipment Safety-measures Safety-monitoring Supervisory-personnel Traumatic-injuries Work-analysis Work-areas Work-operations Work-performance Work-practices

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• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  FACE ; Construction
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  State
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHSFACE99TX467
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Texas ; OSHA Region 6
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  4 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20028740
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2010-114216
• Citation:
  Morgantown, WV: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, FACE 99TX467, 1999 Aug ; :1-4
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1999
• Performing Organization:
  Texas Workers' Compensation Commission
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  21 - Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction - (NAICS)
• Start Date:
  1997/07/01
• End Date:
  2002/09/30
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:e0964358df9834c89f25db9738dbeb6f288433c227045cf4b3630e0c18cdff891205982d0ce66e4d49f92432a7228b4a89c67d1532ad91b8c45275aa10122f46
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/166432/cdc_166432_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 108.85 KB ]