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Occupational Safety and Health Administration OSHA

Accident: 170892699 - Employee Injured After Falling 25 Ft From Rig Tower

**Accident: 170892699 -- Report ID: 0950632 -- Event Date: 10/25/1995**
Inspection	Open Date	SIC	Establishment Name
120134457	10/30/1995	1381	C & L Drilling Inc

Employee #1, of C & L Drilling Co., was 25 ft high on an unguarded platform dismantling a well-drilling rig in preparation for setting a bridal line on the rig's A-leg. Employee #1 fell from the platform and sustained a broken left arm and left jaw and lacerations by his left eye and left nostril. The cause of the accident was management's failure to enforce the use of fall protection after the guardrails were removed from the platform.

Keywords: fracture, guardrail, dismantling, oil well drilling, fall, fall protection, elbow, unguarded

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection	Age	Sex	Degree	Nature	Occupation
1	120134457			Hospitalized injury	Fracture	Drillers, earth

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