TEXAS ENGINEERING EXTENSION SERVICE

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 Why Safety?

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 Why Safety?
• Why is safety
important?
• Why bother with it?
• Isn’t it just another
government or
company program?

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 A good health and safety
program can reduce injuries...
In the U.S. an injury
occurs about every 8.3
seconds

Source: NSC 2004

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 More About the
Injuries
4,365,200 injuries resulted in:
– lost work time
– medical treatment (other
than 1st aid)
– loss of consciousness
– restriction of work or motion
or
– transfer to another job

Source: BLS 2004

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 More About the
Injuries
More than 2.2 million
injuries were serious
enough to require
recuperation away from
work or to restrict duties at
work or both

Source: BLS 2004

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 More about the
injuries
Nationwide, injury rates
generally are higher for
companies with 50-249
workers than for smaller
or larger companies

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 More about the
injuries
1/4th of the 2.2 million
cases involving days
away from work
resulted in 21 days or
more away from work

Source: BLS 2004

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 More about the
injuries
Carpal tunnel
syndrome cases had
more median days
away (28) than
amputations (25).
Musculoskeletal
disorders (MSDs)
account for 32% of all
cases.
Source: BLS 2004

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 A Good Health and Safety
Program Can Stop the
Slaughter...

A workplace death
occurs about every
hour and a half in the
United States

Source: BLS 2004

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 Oil and Gas Fatalities

• SIC 138
• FY 2006
• Provided by Marianne McGee, OSHA,
Corpus Christi

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 Oil and Gas Fatalities in FY06

• 60 fatalities in SIC 1381 nationwide

• 33 in Region VI
– Texas
– Oklahoma
– Arkansas
– Louisiana
– New Mexico

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 Summary
• Struck – by: 18
• Pressure Release/Explosion: 5
• Electrocution: 4
• Fall from elevation: 2
• Heart attack: 2
• Caught – in: 1
• Asphyxiation: 1

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 Struck - By
• Employee was walking across the site
to visually inspect drill pipe when he
was struck by a truck.
• The crown sheave shaft came out of
one of its mounts releasing the
sheaves, the drilling line, 165,000
pound drilling string, and the blocks fell
to the drilling floor.

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 Struck - By
• An employee was traversing a steep
incline on an ATV when the vehicle
turned over, striking the employee.
• Employee was struck on the head by a
falling A-Frame leg of a drilling derrick.
The employee was in the process of
guiding the brace of the A-Frame leg
into place.

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 Struck - By
• An employee was working on / near the line
heater when the end blew off. The employee
had been engaged in changing out the o-ring.
Shut in the line heater by closing a valve
upstream at / near the well head and closing
a valve downstream in front of the separator.
The valve upstream had been opened but the
valve downstream had not been opened.

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 Struck - By
• Employee was struck by pressurized
mud and gas when he attempted to
remove the bolt from the rotating head
rubber gasket.
• Explosion took place, which severed the
flow lines connected to the Christmas
Tree. One of the lines struck the
employee, fatally injuring him.

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 Struck - By
• Employee was run over by a crawler
crane being used to move equipment.
• Employees closed and bled line, then
removed seat in choke valve. Company
man activated switch which remotely
activated valve releasing (4000 psi)
causing a wrench to strike employee in
the face.

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 Struck - By
• 23,000 pound traveling block and
attached 180,000 pound drill string fell
uncontrollably to the drilling floor.
• While underneath the crane boom,
employee struck retaining pin. The mid-
section collapsed directly on employee.
• Employee was struck by counter
weights of pumping unit.

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 Struck - By
• Employee jumped on to the back end of
a traveling bobcat. The auger bit on the
bobcat got stuck into the ground.
Operator of bobcat stopped, backed up
the bobcat, and raised the auger bit up;
when doing this the hydraulic arms of
the bobcat crushed his face and neck.

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 Struck - By
• A large rock was kicked up by the rear
tire of a truck which struck a worker in
the head.
• An employee assisting in servicing a
duplex mud pump was fatally injured
when a 36-inch pipe wrench situated on
the rotating shaft (bull wheel) of the
diesel engine struck the worker when
the clutch was engaged.

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 Struck - By
• Horizontal discharge piping on a trailer
foam unit was left loose and not
secured. When the bleed valve was
opened, the back pressure whipped the
discharge pipe around, striking
employee.
• 2 incidents have no additional
information at this time.

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 Caught - in
• While lubricating rotary the employee’s
raincoat was caught by the near-by
rotating kelly.

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 Pressure Release / Explosion
• Employee was examining the hatch of a
pressurized vessel for a suspected leak
when the hatch exploded, striking the
employee.
• While performing gas well servicing
hydrocarbon vapors escaped from the
well and were ignited by the engine on
the work-over rig.

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 Pressure Release / Explosion
• While operating a reverse circulation
unit, oil and natural gas came up from
the well and the gas entered the intake
of the swivel engine causing an
explosion.
• Explosion occurred while employees
were sleeping.

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 Pressure Release / Explosion
• Employee was attempting to clean out
the coils from the hot oiler truck by
pushing hot water through with the
burners lit on the truck. Without
uncoiling the hose, employee began
pumping out the crude oil into the wash
pit in the yard. The hot water caused a
volatile steam cloud to form which was
blown into the burners causing a flash
fire.

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 Fall from Elevation
• The derrickman fell while holding onto the
elevator after attempting to latch a drill pipe
from the fingers of the board. He had his
harness on but was not tied off.
• Fall from derrick board: Employee grabbed
the elevator and held on for a few minutes but
then let go, grasping a 4.5" vertical pipe.
Employee slid partially down the pipe joint
until he reached the pipe collar from where he
free fell approximately 65 ft.

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 Electrocution
• Repairing cables that had been
damaged by a truck, employee was
holding cable while another employee
energized line (incorrect line).
• Pump jack, being moved with a gin pole
truck, came into contact with or came
near an electrical line.

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 Electrocution
• Employee detected water leak and went
to turn valve off. Valve was energized.
• Employee drove the forklift into the
overhead power lines.

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 Heart attack
• Climbing a stairway on a drilling rig,
employee collapsed.
• Employee fell to the ground suddenly
and was unconscious.

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 Asphyxiation
• Employee opened a cover at the top of
a oil storage tank in order to gage the
amount of water in the tank and was
overcome by H2S gas.

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 Hazards that Cause Fatalities:

• Are also very likely to cause injuries and

raise costs
• OSHA concentrates on the most
common causes of injuries and fatalities

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 A good health and safety
program can save money...
The average direct
cost of a lost time
claim is over $28,000

OSHA "$AFETY
PAYS" Program can
calculate costs of
injuries

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 A good health and safety
program can save more money
• Lower Insurance Cost
• Increase Company’s
Ability to Grow
• Increased Profit
Margin

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 A good health and safety
program can
increase morale
If workers are being
injured they will not
feel good about their
job or the company
that condones unsafe
working conditions and
unsafe work practices

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 A good health and safety
program can
improve efficiency
A safe, healthy and
happy workforce
produces good quality
output

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 A good health and safety
program can improve
productivity

Safety, quality, and

productivity go hand in
hand

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 A good health & safety program
provides regulatory compliance
Compliance with
regulatory standards
alone does not qualify
as a “good Safety and
Health program”

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 Why NOT
Safety?
There isn’t a
defendable answer
to this question

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 4 Reasons to Make Safety
Important
• Responsibility to self
• Responsibility to family
• Responsibility to not endanger co-
workers
• Productivity and health of the company

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BADGES WE
WEAR
• Your role in SAFETY
is selling it.
• To get people to
BUY INTO safety
you need to
understand the
BADGES we all
wear.
BADGE # 1
W.I.I.F.M.
• What's in it for Me!
BADGE # 2
M.M.F.I.
• Make Me feel
Important!
 COMMUNICATION
• People have to believe you truly care
about their SAFETY.