Abstract: At 1:00 p.m. on May 14, 2021, an employee working as a motorman for a drilling company was onsite performing a plug and abandon at a well site (1862 11 A). The employee was working from the drilling rig and was in the process of removing a stick of pipe during the operation. A packer failed approximately 50 feet below the rig floor which allowed the water and steam began to shoot out of a hole in the floor. The employee was standing over the hole and as he was exiting the rig floor, he was struck in the back lower half of his body by the hot water and steam. The employee was hospitalized to treat second degree burns to the back of his legs and buttocks.