Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 44525.015 - Employee is struck by large belt drive on a oil well pumper

Accident Summary Nr: 44525.015 -- Report ID: 0830300 -- Event Date: 05/03/2013
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
905481.015	05/06/2013		213112	Weatherford Pumping Unit

Abstract: At 10:45 p.m. on May 3, 2014. an employee was supervising and perhaps training another service technician from a ladder that was leaned against the pumping unit and under the suspended load of the large drive belt. While the employee was training and/or supervising the work of another technician, the large belt used to drive the pump somehow came loose, fell and struck the employee on the ladder, knocking him to the ground. The employee was killed by blunt force trauma to the chest, caused by falling equipment and being knocked off of a ladder.

Keywords: Confined Space, Elevated Work Platform, Fall, Falling Object, Hoist, Ladder, Lockout/Tagout, Oil Well Drilling/Servicing, Rigging, Struck By, Suspended Load

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	905481.015	53	M	Fatality		Supervisors, n.e.c.

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