Internal injuries to organs and blood vessels of the trunk

An employee was standing on top of a 12-inch-diameter pipe, attempting to hang a chainfall, when he lost his balance and fell backward onto a piece of horizontal pipe, puncturing a lung.

An employee was making a connection with tongs and cables when one of the cables on the (muffled) drive caught the tongs and lifted them up. He held on to the tongs for approximately 10 feet before he fell to the ground. He landed on his side, fracturing ribs and vertebrae and puncturing a lung. […]

While rigging up the top drive, employees needed to move the Kelly hose into position. They had to swing the ST-80 all the way around. The injured employee was in a crush point, and his foot was caught while stepping out of the crush point. The ST-80 was pulled over, trapping the employee’s body between […]

The injured employee was standing on a wellhead that weighed about 8,000 pounds. The wellhead was sitting on a ring gasket about 10 feet off the floor. While the employee was unlatching the chain from the elevator to the wellhead, his colleague moved the elevator. The employee and the wellhead fell about 10 feet to […]

An employee was using a 10-ton overhead crane and had picked up a bundle of steel angles weighing 7,250 lbs. The employee and a coworker then raised the bundle around 4 feet high and started to cut the metal strapping off the bundle. The employees were on their third band when the crane was moved […]

Employees were rounding up bulls when a horse bucked an employee off and then rolled over the employee. The employee was hospitalized with broken ribs and a collapsed lung.

An employee was walking on a wet scaffold board when he slid and fell off the scaffold, fracturing his shoulder, rupturing his spleen, bruising ribs, and breaking his right leg and knee.

An employee was unloading a padder from a trailer when the padder flipped and ejected the employee. He suffered a punctured lung, facial fractures, and a dislocated shoulder, requiring hospitalization.

An employee was spraying penetrating oil under a truck when the oil entered his mouth. He suffered chemical burns to his mouth and lungs, requiring hospitalization.

An employee was trimming a tree using a pole-saw while inside an aerial lift when the pole-saw contacted an electrical powerline. The employee was electrically shocked and fell 15 feet to the ground, suffering electrical burns, a fractured back, and a collapsed lung.