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Accident: 14240915 - Employee Killed In Fall From Work Platform

Accident: 14240915 -- Report ID: 0627700 -- Event Date: 07/06/1984
InspectionOpen DateSICEstablishment Name
84521407/12/19841389Nichols Casing Crews Inc
Employee #1 was a member of a crew that was running a well casing into a hole. He was positioned 36 ft above the ground on a work platform on a drilling rig derrick. As the elevator carrying a joint of casing pipe was being raised, a bridle line snagged on an exposed bolt on the rig floor, causing the rig trucking blocks to be pulled off their vertical line of travel. When the line released, the weight caused the blocks to swing to the backside of the derrick and then to the front, knocking Employee #1 off the work platform. He was killed.
Keywords: derrick, blocks, work rules, oil well drilling, fall, fall protection, struck by, elevated work plat, oil rig
Employee # Inspection Age Sex Degree Nature Occupation
1 845214 Fatality Concussion Occupation not reported

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