Explosion Problems In the Oil Drilling Industry
Working in the oil and gas industry is very good pay but has more deaths from fires and explosions than any other private industry.
The oil and gas industry employs less than 1 percent of the U.S. workforce, but in the past five years it has had more than 10 percent of all workplace fatalities from fires and explosions.
It is amazing to learn what these people are doing in the name of normal safety practices.
This industry is more dangerous then the average person realizes and you would think there would be a better way to rectify some of the reasons why people are getting killed.
Some of the examples of what is happening are as follows:
- Two rig supervisors continued to drill at an AB Resources well site near Moundsville, W.Va., in 2010, even after the air filled with flammable methane gas.
- After an explosion killed a company employee, the safety manager of Weatherford, Texas-based C&R Downhole Drilling told investigators she was new to the position and did not have any formal training in safety.
- The rented blowout preventer used by Premium Well Drilling at a well near Carrizo Springs, Texas, in 2008 wasn’t fully tested after it was installed, and the crew wasn’t trained to use it.
- Contract workers killed in a 2011 explosion in Wyoming had no formal training or supervision before being sent to install a fuel line. One worker was welding on a gas line connected to a storage tank containing more than 1,300 gallons of crude oil.
- A battery-powered headlamp worn by a water truck driver appears to have been enough to set off the flammable hydrocarbons venting out of a “brine” waste water tank at an EQT Production Co. well in February 2013 in Flemington, W.Va.
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