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				<p class="style_Normal style_Normal " style="margin-left:48px; margin-right:-48px; widows:2; orphans:2; "><span style="font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; ">Christopher D. Lopez-Loftis</span><span style="font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; ">, Esq.</span><span style="font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; ">, U.S. Depa</span><span style="font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; ">rtment of Labor, Office of the Solicitor,<span>
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				<p class="style_Normal style_Normal " style="widows:2; orphans:2; "><span style="font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; ">Before: A</span><span style="font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; ">dministrative Law Judge<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; ">Brian A. Duncan</span><span style="font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; "></span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">July 23, 2015</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">,</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Respondent’s mobile well-servicing rig<span>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">its employees were</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>attempting to remove a piece of pipe that had become stuck<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">in an oil well<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">thousands of feet<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">under ground</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">.<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">T</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">wo employees were s</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">eriously injured and another, who was<span>
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						</span>60 f</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">e</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">et up in the<span>
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						</span>Compliance Safety a</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">nd Health Officer<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">(“CSHO”)<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Wayne Eyerly and James Nelson</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, a technical analyst<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">from</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>the<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">OSHA<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Salt Lake City<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">T</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">echnical<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">C</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">enter, to</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>perform an inspection of the worksite. CSHO Eyerly<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">a</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">nd Mr.<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Nelson</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>arrived at the worksite<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">a week-and-a-half</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>after the accident<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">occurred</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">
					</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Based on</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>CSHO<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Eyerly’s</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>and Mr.<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Nelson</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">’s observations and</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>recommendations, Complainant issued a<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">Citation and Notifica</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">tion of Penalty</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, alleging<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">that<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Respondent committed a</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">serious violation of<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">29 U.S.C. § 654(a)(1)</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">,</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">also referred to as<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">the general</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>duty clause</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">,<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">with a</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>proposed penalty of $</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">7,000</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">. Respondent timely contested the<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">Citation</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, which brought the matter before the</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">pur</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">s</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">uant to</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>Section 10(c) of the<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">OSH<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Act.<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "></span></p>
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				<p class="style_Normal style_Normal " style="line-height:2; text-align:justify; text-indent:1.27cm; widows:2; orphans:2; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">This<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">case</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>was originally<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">set</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>for trial on December 6, 2016;<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">then continued</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">,</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>at the request<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">of the parties, to March 9, 2017.<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>On March 9, 2017, the trial</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>began<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">bu</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">t was<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">quickly recessed<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">because</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>two key witnesses</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">,<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Joh</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">n</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">ny</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>Mullins and<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Michael</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>Brown,</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">refused</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>to comply with<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">trial<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">subpoena</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">s</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>issued by this Court</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">.</span><span class="style_FootnoteReference style_FootnoteReference " style="font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; "><a name="ftnref0" href="#ftn0">1</a></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "> Both parties also raised multiple<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">discovery issues and claims of prejudi</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">ce for the first time at trial</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>(Tr.<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">78-106).</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "></span></p>
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				<p class="style_Normal style_Normal " style="line-height:2; text-align:justify; text-indent:1.27cm; widows:2; orphans:2; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">On March 29, 2017, Complainant filed a mot</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">i</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">on to enforce the subpoenas</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">. Therefore,<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">the matter was referred to the<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Department of Justice, who has authority to pursue the enforcement of<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">OSHRC<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">subpoenas<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">before</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">the<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">appropriate<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">U.S. District Court.<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">See<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">29 C.F.R. § 2200.65(f)</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">.<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>It took nearly 10 months</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">for the DOJ<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">to<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">authorize the enforcement action</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>and refer the matter to a local U.S. Attorney’s Office</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">. </span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">On February 27, 2018, the</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>U.S. Attorney</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>filed a petition to enforce the administrative subpoenas<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">served on Mullins and Brown<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">in the Eastern District o</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">f</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>Texas. T</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">his Court<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">further<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">issued an order compelling<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Mullins and Brown to testify at<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">a</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">commencement of this<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">trial on March 1, 2018. </span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "></span></p>
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				<p class="style_Normal style_Normal " style="line-height:2; text-align:justify; text-indent:1.27cm; widows:2; orphans:2; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">When the</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>trial was reconvened on March 1, 2018,<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">however,<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Mullins a</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">nd Brown again failed to appear. In lieu of waiting f</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">o</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">r Mullins and Brown</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, t</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">he Court heard testimony from<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">the only other witness called by the parties:<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">James</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Nelson</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>(Tr. 140).</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>By</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>th</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">e conclusion of</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>Nelson’s testimony</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, neither Mullins nor Brown<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">had<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">appeare</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">d</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">. Therefore,<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">the Court ordered the trial be<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">recesse</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">d</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">again while the subpoena enforceme</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">nt action progressed<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">before the District Judge<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">in the Eastern District of Texas.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>(Tr. 282-294).</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "></span></p>
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				<p class="style_Normal style_Normal " style="line-height:2; text-align:justify; text-indent:1.27cm; widows:2; orphans:2; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">On April 17, 2018, Respondent filed a<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">Petition for Interlocutory<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">R</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">eview</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>based on the repeated trial delays</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>and<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">a</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>claim of pr</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">e</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">judice resulting from those delays. The matter was n</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">ot accepted</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>by the Commission</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>for review</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, resulting in a<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">de facto<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">denial of<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">the petition on May 18, 2018.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">See</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">29 C.F.R. § 2200.73(b).</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "></span></p>
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				<p class="style_Normal style_Normal " style="line-height:2; text-align:justify; text-indent:1.27cm; widows:2; orphans:2; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">On December 3, 2</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">018, the Eastern District of Texas District Court iss</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">u</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">ed an<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">Order to Show Cause</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>to Mullins and Brown regarding their failure to appear at the<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">OSHRC<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">trial</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Ultimately, on<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">April 8, 20</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">19,<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Brown and Mullins withdrew their previously lodged objections</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>to the O</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">SHRC subpoenas</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">. </span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Therefore</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, o</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">n April 10, 201</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">9, the Di</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">s</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">trict Court issued an order directing Mullins and Brown to appear before this Court “at such reasonable time and place as the AL</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">J may set, and then and there testify.”<span>
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				<p class="style_Normal style_Normal " style="line-height:2; text-align:justify; text-indent:1.27cm; widows:2; orphans:2; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">O</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">n June 7, 2019,<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">the conclusion o</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">f this</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>trial was conducted<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">in<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Tyler, Texas, wherein b</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">o</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">th Mullins and Brown appeared<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">and gave testimony</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "> No additional witnesses were called by either party.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">
					</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">B</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">oth parties</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">timely<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">sub</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">mitted post-trial briefs</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">for<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">consideration.<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "></span></p>
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				<p class="style_Normal style_Normal " style="line-height:2; text-align:center; widows:2; orphans:2; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:underline ;font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:underline ;">Jurisdiction</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:underline ;font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:underline ;"><span><span></span>
						</span>& Stipulations</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:underline ;font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:underline ;"></span></p>
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				<p class="style_Normal style_Normal " style="line-height:2; text-align:justify; text-indent:1.27cm; widows:2; orphans:2; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">T</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">he parties<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">stipulated<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">that<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">the Commission has j</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">urisdi</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">c</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">tion<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">over this proceeding</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>pursuant to Section 10(c) of the Act</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>and</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>that, at all times relevant to this proceeding,<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Respondent was an employer engaged in a business and industry affecting interstate comm</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">erce within the meaning of Sections 3(3) and 3(5) of<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">t</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">he Act, 29 U.S.C. § 652(5).</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>(</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Tr. 15</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">)</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">See<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">Slingluff v. OSHRC</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, 425</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>F.3d 861 (10th Cir. 2005).</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">
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				<p class="style_Normal style_Normal " style="line-height:2; text-align:center; widows:2; orphans:2; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:underline ;font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:underline ;">Factual<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:underline ;font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:underline ;">Background</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:underline ;font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:underline ;"></span></p>
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				<p class="style_Normal style_Normal " style="line-height:2; text-align:justify; text-indent:1.27cm; widows:2; orphans:2; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">
					</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Respondent<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">was</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>hired by Mid-States Petroleum to remove a section of<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">oil<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">pipe that ha</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">d become stuck roughly 7</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">,</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">5</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">00 feet<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">below the wellhead.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">(Tr.<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">353, 384, 450</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">). Respondent worked with a<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">tool</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">hand</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>named<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">George Ogle</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, who<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">was employed by</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Knight Tools</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, which provides specialty tools to aid in the removal of stuck pip</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">e. (Tr.<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">365–66</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">). </span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">The opera</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">tion was overseen by a company man,<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Stewart</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>Luce, who</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">represented Mid-St</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">ates at the wellsite. (Tr.<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">366, 421</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">).</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "> Respondent’s on-site crew consisted of<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Michael<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Brown</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>(Rig Supervisor</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">/Tool Pusher</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">)</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">,<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Johnny<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Mullins</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>(Rig Operator)</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">,<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Justin<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Turner</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>(</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">d</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">errick<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">h</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">and)</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, a</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">nd<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">two<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">other</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">d</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">errick<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">h</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">ands.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>(Tr. 337,</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>421, 450).<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "></span></p>
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				<p class="style_Normal style_Normal " style="line-height:2; text-align:justify; text-indent:1.27cm; widows:2; orphans:2; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Th</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">e</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">process</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>of removing a piece of stuck<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">oil<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">pipe</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">down the well<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">is commonly referred to as “fishing</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">,</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">” and the piece of stuck pipe is referred to as the “fish”. (Tr.<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">317–19</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">). </span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Respondent provided what is kno</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">wn as a mobile workover rig, which<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">was used as the fi</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">s</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">hing po</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">le, so to speak, to reel in the fish</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">.</span><span class="style_FootnoteReference style_FootnoteReference " style="font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; "><a name="ftnref1" href="#ftn1">2</a></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>(Tr.<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">323</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">). </span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">The rig<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">being used at this site</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">,<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">a<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">series 750</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, ha</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">d</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>a hydraulic actuated<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">mast</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">,</span><span class="style_FootnoteReference style_FootnoteReference " style="font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; "><a name="ftnref2" href="#ftn2">3</a></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>which extend</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">ed</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>120 feet up</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">in the air<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">from the rear of the mobile</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>unit</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, and ha</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">d</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>a 300,000-pound lifting capacity</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">. (Tr.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">149,<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">32</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">6–28</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">). </span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Once the rig<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">wa</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">s positioned<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">over</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>the wellhead, it<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">wa</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">s anchored to a base beam, which is a solid piece of steel,<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">measuring</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>roughly</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>85 feet long</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">,<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">4</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>feet wide, and at least 6–12 inches thick</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">. (Tr.<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">328–</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">30</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">).<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>T</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">he derrick ha</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">d</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>three main</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>employee</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">w</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">ork<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">areas: the<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">“</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">goat stand,</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">”</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>where the rig operator</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, Mullins,</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">wa</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">s positioned; the rig floor</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, where the two derrick hands worked</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">; and the<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">elevated<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">tubing board, where<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">derrick hand<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Justin Turner,</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">wa</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">s</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>stat</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">ioned</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">. (Tr.<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">337–38, 344</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, 354). </span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">The rig operator rais</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">e</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">d</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>and lower</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">ed the</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>pipe</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>string</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>by controlling elevators</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">attached to the mast. (Tr.<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">319–20, 344</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">). The</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>rig floor<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">hands</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">used</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>a set of tongs to separate sections of pipe, known as “stands”,</span><span class="style_FootnoteReference style_FootnoteReference " style="font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; "><a name="ftnref3" href="#ftn3">4</a></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>as they c</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">a</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">me ou</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">t of the wellhead. (Tr. 344). The derrick hand</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">who<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">w</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">a</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">s positioned<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">on</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>the tubing board, roughly 60 feet above the rig floor, t</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">ook</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>the individual<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">pipes</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>that ha</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">d</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>been lifted out of the wellhead and p</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">laced</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>them in<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">a</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>rack stand. (Tr.<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">191–93,<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">344</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, 357</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">; Ex.<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">C-4<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">at 7, 12</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">).<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "></span></p>
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				<p class="style_Normal style_Normal " style="line-height:2; text-align:justify; text-indent:1.27cm; widows:2; orphans:2; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Brown’s</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>crew arrived at the wellsite<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">at<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">3</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">:00<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">p.m. on<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">July 22, 2015,<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">the day before the rig<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">collapse</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">. (Tr. 347). They<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">set</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>up the mobile servicing unit and the night crew<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">started putting pipe into the hole</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>until 7:00</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>a.m.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>the next morning, at w</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">hich point Brown’s c</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">rew took over after conducting it</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">s</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>safety meeting, filling out a job safety analysis, and attaching a new weight indicator. (Tr. 345, 348–49). </span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">After 3–4 hours of running pipe down the hole,<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Brown’s</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>crew had reached the<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">stuck section of</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>pipe (aka “</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">fish</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">”)</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>(</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Tr. 350). As part of the fishing</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">operation,<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">the night crew</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, with the assistance of<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Ogle</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">,</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">had<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">attached a piece of equipment<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">to the bottom hole assembly (BHA) known as an overshot.</span><span class="style_FootnoteReference style_FootnoteReference " style="font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; "><a name="ftnref4" href="#ftn4">5</a></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>(Tr.<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">317, 339, 349, 413</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">). The overshot<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">wa</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">s designed to</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>latch onto the</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>fish</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, so it could be freed and<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">pull</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">ed</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">upward<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">to the ground su</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">r</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">face.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>(Tr.<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">319</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">). </span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">At this point in the process, there<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">wa</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">s<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">7</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">,</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">500 feet, or<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">approximately 96,000 pounds</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">,</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>of pipe (including the BHA)<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">down the well</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, which Mullins referred to as the<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">“work string”</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>or “pipe string.”</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>(Tr.<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">340</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, 353</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">). </span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "></span></p>
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				<p class="style_Normal style_Normal " style="line-height:2; text-align:justify; text-indent:1.27cm; widows:2; orphans:2; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Onc</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">e</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>Mullin</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">s latched onto the fish, he loaded the “jars”, which<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">we</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">re<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">compressed hydraulic rims inside of a cylinder on the BHA</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>that appl</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">y an impact, or jolt,<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">to the stuck fish.</span><span class="style_FootnoteReference style_FootnoteReference " style="font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; "><a name="ftnref5" href="#ftn5">6</a></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>(Tr. 351</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">–52</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">)</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">. Mullins<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">incre</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">ased the upwa</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">rd pull weight on the pipe string to<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">120</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">,</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">000 pounds</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, which caused the jars to be set off. (Tr. 351). At that point, the fish remained stuck in place, so<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Mullins reloaded the jars and</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">increased the string pull weight to<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">170,000 pounds. (Tr. 35</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">1–52). Accor</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">ding to Mullins, when the jars were rele</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">a</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">sed</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">again<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">at 170,000 pounds,</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>the<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">stuck section of pipe/</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">fish came<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">loose</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">. (Tr. 351–52</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">).</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "> None of Respondent’s employees were working on the rig</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>floor or<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">on the<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">elevated tube board</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">during this first releas</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">e of stuck pi</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">p</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">e</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">. (Tr. 354).</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">
					</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">After they<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">“</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">caught the</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">fish</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">”,</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>the<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">three derrick hands</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">climbed up<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">on the rig<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">to various positions<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">to begin pulling out the work string and busted pipe. (Tr.<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">353–54</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">).<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "></span></p>
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				<p class="style_Normal style_Normal " style="line-height:2; text-align:justify; text-indent:1.27cm; widows:2; orphans:2; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">According to Mullins, the<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">subsequent<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">pipe removal<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">was a sl</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">ow<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">process because there was a bend</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>towards the botto</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">m</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>of the<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">well<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">hole where the<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">pipe t</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">urned</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>laterally for 3,000 to 4,000<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">feet. (Tr. 355). Mullins testified it took nearly an hour-and-a-half to remove 15 to 16 stands of pipe</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>from the well</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, because they h</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">ad<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">to<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">occasionally<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">move the string up and down in ord</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">e</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">r to move the stands past the bend.</span><span class="style_FootnoteReference style_FootnoteReference " style="font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; "><a name="ftnref6" href="#ftn6">7</a></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">(Tr.<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">355</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, 359). </span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">The extracted</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>stands were placed in the rack by Turner, who was aloft in the mast. (Tr. 357).<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">During this<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">part of the process</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, the weight indicator<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">sho</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">wed the rig pulling with roughly 85,000 to 100,000</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">pounds of force, which accounted for the<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">approximate 96,000 pound<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">string weight</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">,<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">and the<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">additional force<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">needed<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">to get the stands past the bend in the hole. (Tr.<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">359</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, 425</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">). Mullins testified it was no</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">t unusual to have fluctuations of a few thousand poun</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">d</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">s above the string weight. (Tr.<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">388</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">).</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">
					</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Rig Supervisor<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Brown was in his truck<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">during the in</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">i</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">tial removal of<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">pipe sections</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">. (Tr. 361).<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "></span></p>
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				<p class="style_Normal style_Normal " style="line-height:2; text-align:justify; widows:2; orphans:2; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span style="mso-tab-count:1">  </span>Once<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Respondent’s crew</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>had removed 1</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">5 to 16 stands of pipe,<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">it</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>got<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">stuck again. (Tr. 360). At this point, Mullins calle</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">d</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>Brown</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>and the Knight Tool rep</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">,<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Ogle</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, to come to the Rig Operator station</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">. (Tr. 360). Both<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Ogle</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>and Brown<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">watched</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>Mullins work the string up and down a few times</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, unsucces</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">sfully trying to</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>free th</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">is seco</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">nd</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>stuck pipe/fish</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">. (Tr. 360).<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>Brown<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">confirmed this<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">d</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">uring his trial testimony, indicating that pipe<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">stand number 17 is the point at which “it got real stuck.” (Tr. 433).</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">
					</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "></span></p>
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				<p class="style_Normal style_Normal " style="line-height:2; text-align:justify; widows:2; orphans:2; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span style="mso-tab-count:1">  </span>Ogle<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">then<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">told<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Mullins<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">to<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">increase the pull weight</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>to 120,000 pounds</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">and set off<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">the jars again</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">. (Tr. 361). At that point, Mullins as</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">k</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">ed Brown if they could get Justin Turner down<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">from<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">the<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">elevated tube board</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>above the rig</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">. (Tr. 362). </span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Ogle told Mullins and Brown:</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>“You know we already pulled the 170</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">[k].<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">This is not nothing up there he</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">’s not used to. Don’t worry about it.” (Tr. 363). Mu</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">l</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">lins again asked Brown what he should do, and Brown told him to listen to Ogle. (Tr. 363). Mullins followed those instructions and pulled until the indicator read 120</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">,000</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>pounds of force</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>and set off th</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">e jars, which caused a “big jolt” to the rig</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">. Howeve</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">r</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, it</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>did not free the stuck pipe. (Tr. 363).<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">At this point, the<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Mid-States<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">company man, Luce, made his way up to the<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Rig Operator’s position</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">. (Tr. 365).<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Also at that<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">time, t</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">he<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">two<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">other<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">derrick<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">floor<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">hand</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">s got down off the rig</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">. (Tr. 366–68). </span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "></span></p>
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				<p class="style_Normal style_Normal " style="line-height:2; text-align:justify; widows:2; orphans:2; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span style="mso-tab-count:1">  </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Rig Oper</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">a</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">tor<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Mullins was<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">then</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>accompanied by Ogle, Luce, and Brown,<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">while<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">derrick hand Justin<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Turner was still 60 feet up<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">above the rig floor<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">o</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">n the<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">elevated<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">tube board. (Tr.<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">36</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">6</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">). Ogle<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">directed</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>Mullins to<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">incr</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">ease the rig<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">pull</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">ing force</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>to 140</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">,000 pounds</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, at whic</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">h</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>point Mullins<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">told his supervisor<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Brown</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>again</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, “We need to get Justin down.” (Tr. 369).<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>After Ogle said it would be all right, Brown told him to proceed,<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">leaving<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Turn</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">er up in the mast. (Tr. 369). Mul</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">lins slowly increased the force of the pull to 140</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">,00</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">0</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>pounds</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">,<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">but<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">it still<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">failed to free the stuck pipe</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">. (Tr. 370). Ogle and Luce<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">then<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">told him to increase the pull<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">to 160,000 pounds</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">. (Tr. 370). Mullins<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">again asked his</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>supervisor Brown to<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">bring Justin<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Turner<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">down</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>off the rig</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">. (Tr. 370). In response, Ogl</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">e</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>told him, “If you’re that worried about Justin, you need to holler up there and tell him to hold onto something.” (Tr. 370).<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Mullins looked to Brown, who</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>was standing</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>right next to him and</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>told him</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">:</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>“</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Just do what they’re saying</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">.” </span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">(Tr.<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">371</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">).</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">
					</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Ogle follo</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">w</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">ed<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">this</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>by mocking<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Respondent’s crew</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>for being too timid</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>and call</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">ed</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>them<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">derogatory<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">names</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">. (Tr. 371).</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">
					</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Following the instruction</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">s</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>he was given, Mullins slowly<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">increased the rig pull force</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">to<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">160</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">,000 pou</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">nds</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, at which point</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>they</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>not</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">iced<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">the front end<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">of the</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">rig lifting up off the ground</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">. (Tr. 372</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">-373</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">).</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">
					</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">According to Mullins, the<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">pipe then broke free, and the<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">rig fell<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">back toward the g</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">round, and flipped over on its side</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">. (Tr. 373).<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "></span></p>
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				<p class="style_Normal style_Normal " style="line-height:2; text-align:justify; widows:2; orphans:2; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span style="mso-tab-count:1">  </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Though Brown and Mullin</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">s agreed on many facts during the trial, there were s</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">o</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">me discrepancies. </span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">When<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Brown</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>testified, he</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>confirmed<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">that<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Mullins<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">asked to</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>remove Turner from the mast before they lifted to 120</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">,000 pounds</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, but<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">claimed they did not set off the<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">jars during the time Tu</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">rner was in the elevated platform. (Tr.<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">434–35</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">). </span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Onc</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">e</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>they reached 120</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">,000 pounds of force</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, Brown<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">also confirmed that</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>Mullins again asked if they could remove Turner from the<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">elev</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">a</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">ted<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">derrick</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>platform</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">. (Tr. 425). Brown<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">also<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">confirmed that Ogle referred t</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">o Mullins in a derogatory way</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>after voicing his conce</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">r</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">ns</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, and<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">that<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Luce, the company man, just laughed. (Tr. 426). Br</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">own<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">also confirmed that<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">he told Mullins they were “still good right now”, and<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">with Turner still on the elevated platform,<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">directed</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>Mullins</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">increase the pull weight to 1</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">30</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">,000 pounds, then 140</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">,</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">000 pounds, then 150,000 pounds.<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>(Tr. 426). </span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "></span></p>
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				<p class="style_Normal style_Normal " style="line-height:2; text-align:justify; text-indent:1.27cm; widows:2; orphans:2; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Brown testified</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>t</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">hat once they reached 150,000 pounds, contrary to Mullins’ testimony, that</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>he told the<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">two<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">floor hands an</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">d<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Turner<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">to get off the rig</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">. (Tr.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">426). </span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Brown<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">further<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">testified<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">that<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">he<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">was arguing</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>w</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">i</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">th Luce about Turner coming down from the derrick</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>tube platform</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">,</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">just as the rig started lifting off of the ground.<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">(Tr. 427). </span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "></span></p>
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				<p class="style_Normal style_Normal " style="line-height:2; text-align:justify; widows:2; orphans:2; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span style="mso-tab-count:1">  </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">T</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">he Court</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>found</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>Mullins’ testimony to be more<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">credible</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>than Brown’s</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">. </span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Mu</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">llins</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">was at the controls of the rig the entire time,</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">and had first-hand knowledge of the rig pull settings and progressions. </span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Although<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Brown<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">claimed that jars were not set off again at 120,000<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">pounds</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, the Court specifically credits Mullins over Brown on<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">this issue. </span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Mullins testified<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">very specifically, th</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">a</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">t<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Ogle told him to<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">re-</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">set<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">the jars<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">at 120</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">,000</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>to</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>try to</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>free<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">this second “fish</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">”</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">
					</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Mullins was<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">the one specifically responsible for re-setting those jars and increasing the pull pressure to set them off</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">
					</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">G</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">iven the impact th</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">at jarring</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">ha</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">d</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>on the rig, Mulli</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">n</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">s’ testimony regarding the jars explains both his heightened concern for Turner’s safety, as well as the floor hands’ subsequent decision to vacate the rig floor</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">,</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>at a<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">point whe</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">n</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>Brown, Ogle, and Luce s</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">eemed to be comfortable</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>with the</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">employees’ locations</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">and working<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">conditions</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
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				<p class="style_Normal style_Normal " style="line-height:2; text-align:justify; text-indent:1.27cm; widows:2; orphans:2; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">T</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">he Court also<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">notes that</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>Mullins’ testimony was consistent throughout, whereas Brown<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">hedged or<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">changed his testimony</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>in some areas. For example, when Brown was asked</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>what con</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">stitute</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">d</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>a<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">“</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">normal pull</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">” for the</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>rig</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">,<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">he testified th</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">a</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">t<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">it<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">was equal to the weight of the work string</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">/pipe string</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>below the rig</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, which is how Mullins described it</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">. (Tr.<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">388, 469–71</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">). However,<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">in response to questions from<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Respondent’s counsel, Brown<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">chang</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">ed his testimony to suggest that</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>a<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">“</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">normal</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">”</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>pull coul</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">d</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">far<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">exceed the weight of the work string</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">/pipe string</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">. (Tr.<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">482–83</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">). Such variation in testimony suggests, in part, that Brown’s<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">may have been<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">motivated by<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">his<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">desire to show</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>he had<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">made appropriate su</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">pervisory decisions<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">under the c</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">ircumstances</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">.<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">
					</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "></span></p>
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				<p class="style_Normal style_Normal " style="line-height:2; text-align:justify; widows:2; orphans:2; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span style="mso-tab-count:1">  </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">As t</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">h</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">e rig<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">collapsed</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">,<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Mullins and Brown were thrown from the walkway they were using to<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">try to<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">escape. (Tr.<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">377</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">). When he<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">regained consciousness</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>underneath the<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">toppled rig</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, Mullins was co</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">vered in hot oil</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">.<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">(</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Tr.<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">378</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">). </span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">He subsequently underwent multiple surgeri</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">e</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">s as a result of his injuries. </span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Turner,</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>who was still on the<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">elevated platform</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>above the rig floor throughout all of these events</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">,<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">was killed in the collapse.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>(Tr. 381).</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "> Brown</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>was f</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">ound<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">on top of plas</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">tic chemical tanks with iron and</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>wire</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>guidelines layi</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">n</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">g across him.<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">(Tr.<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">381–82</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">). Brown had to be life-flighted to the nearest hospital, where he<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">underwent</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>multiple surgeries.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>(Tr. 382–83).</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">
					</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "></span></p>
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				<p class="style_Normal style_Normal " style="line-height:2; text-align:justify; widows:2; orphans:2; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span style="mso-tab-count:1">  </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">OSHA began its investigation on<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">August 4, 2</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">015, approximately<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">a week-and-a-half after the<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">accident</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">. (Tr. 146). Com</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">p</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">lainant sent CSHO Wayne Eyerly from the Oklahoma City Area Office and James<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Nelson</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, a</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">n engineer and consultant</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>with the OSHA Technical Center, to inspect the site. </span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Nelson</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>was called in to provide techn</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">ical support for the inspection based on his previous</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">participation in investigations involving oil and gas wells. (Tr. 144–45). At this point in time, the rig rem</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">ained in the same position it was in after it had fallen on July 23, 2015. (Tr.<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">148; Ex. C-4</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">). </span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "></span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">limited.<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Nelson</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>and Eyerly</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">t</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">ook</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>pictures and ask</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">ed</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>questions of the company representatives that were on site,<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">but did not<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">conduct intervi</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">ews of any individuals involved in the accident itself. (Tr. 149–50, 160–61). Accordingly,</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">in support of their determination that a violation oc</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">c</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">urred,</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Nelson</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>and Eyerly relied<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">heavily<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">upon statements provided to police officers</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>a</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">fter<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">the accident. (Tr. 1</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">64, 166).<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Based on</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>their<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">investigation</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, Complainant<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">determined that<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Respondent violated Sec</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">tion 5(a)(1) of the Act when it engaged in</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">unusually<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">h</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">ard pull</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">s</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>while<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Justin<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Turner was<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">on the derrick’s elevated<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">tube deck, 60 feet above the<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">rig floor</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">. </span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "></span></p>
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				<p class="style_Normal style_Normal " style="line-height:2; text-align:justify; widows:2; orphans:2; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span style="mso-tab-count:1">  </span>Complainant alleged a serious violation of the Act in Citation 1, Ite</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">m 1 as follows:<span>
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				<p class="style_Normal style_Normal " style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:16px; text-align:justify; margin-left:48px; margin-right:48px; widows:2; orphans:2; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Section 5(a)(1) of the Occupational<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">S</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">afety and Health Act of 1970</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">: </span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">The employer did not furnish employment and a place of employment which<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">were free from recognized hazards that were causing or likely to c</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">ause death or serious physical ha</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">rm during an oil and gas services rig fall over event</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">:</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
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				<p class="style_Normal style_Normal style_179 style_179 " style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:16px; text-align:justify; margin-left:48px; margin-right:48px; widows:2; orphans:2; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">At the worksite: On or about July 23, 2015, employees working within an oil and gas service rig were<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">not removed from the derrick prior to applying unusual loading on the rig.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "></span></p>
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				<p class="style_Normal style_Normal style_179 style_179 " style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:16px; text-align:justify; margin-left:48px; margin-right:48px; widows:2; orphans:2; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "></span> </p>
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				<p class="style_Normal style_Normal style_179 style_179 " style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:16px; text-align:justify; margin-left:48px; margin-right:48px; widows:2; orphans:2; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Among others, one feasi</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">ble and acceptable means of abatement would be to com</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">p</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">ly with American Petroleum Institute (API) 54, Recommended Practice for Occupational Safety for Oil and</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>Gas Well Drilling and Servicing Operations, Chapter 9.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "></span></p>
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				<p class="style_Normal style_Normal " style="line-height:2; widows:2; orphans:2; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">Citation and Notification of Penalty</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>at 6.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "></span></p>
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				<p class="style_Normal style_Normal " style="line-height:2; text-align:justify; widows:2; orphans:2; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span style="mso-tab-count:1">  </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">To establish a violation of the general duty clause,</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Complainant must prove “(1) a condition or activity in the workplace presented a hazard; (2) the employer or its industry recognized the hazard; (3) the hazard was causing or likely to cause death or se</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">r</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">ious physical harm; and (4) a feasible and effective</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">means existed to eliminate or materially reduce the hazard.”<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">S.J. Louis Constr. of Tex.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, 25 BNA OSHC 1892, 1894 (No. 12-1045, 2016). </span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Citing to the American Petroleum Institute’s Recommended Practice 54</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">,</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>C</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">omplainant alleges Respondent</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>violated the general</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">duty clause by attempting<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">an unusual pull<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">to free a piece of stuck pipe while employees were on the servicing rig, thereby creating falling and struck-by hazards.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "> Respondent<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">argues that</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Complainant fai</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">l</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">ed to establish a violation because: (1) he did not<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">d</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">efine what “unusual loading” is and, therefore, did not establish the existence of a hazard; (2) he did not establish Respondent or the well servicing industry recognized<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">such<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">a hazard under the circums</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">t</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">ances presented<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">in this case</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">; and (3) he failed to s</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">h</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">ow<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Respondent<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">had adequate time to abate the hazard once it became aware of the hazard.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "></span></p>
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				<p class="style_Normal style_Normal " style="line-height:2; text-align:justify; widows:2; orphans:2; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span style="mso-tab-count:1">  </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">T</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">he term “unusual”, which is used twice in the cited API Recommended Practice, is not<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">specifically defined</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>by th</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">e</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>API. </span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">However, the Court<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">finds</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">t</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">hat<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Respondent was<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">a</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">ware that pulling on a piece of stuck pipe</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, at the increased<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">levels</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>involved in this case, with the use of jarring,<span>
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						</span>in unusual loading on the rig and</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>create</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">d</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>a hazard for<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">the<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">employee<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">on the<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">el</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">evated tube stand</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">. T</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">hus,<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Respondent<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">should have remo</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">v</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">ed Turner</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">from the rig</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">before the pulling force was increased<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">to 120,000 pounds and</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>the jars were set off</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">. </span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Accordingly, consistent with the<span>
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						</span>below, the Court finds Respondent violated the g</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">en</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">eral duty clause as alleged by Complainant.<span>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; text-decoration:underline ;font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; text-decoration:underline ;">C</span><span style="font-size:12pt; text-decoration:underline ;font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; text-decoration:underline ;">reated a<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; text-decoration:underline ;font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; text-decoration:underline ;">H</span><span style="font-size:12pt; text-decoration:underline ;font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; text-decoration:underline ;">azard for<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; text-decoration:underline ;font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; text-decoration:underline ;">E</span><span style="font-size:12pt; text-decoration:underline ;font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; text-decoration:underline ;">mployees</span><span style="font-size:12pt; text-decoration:underline ;font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; text-decoration:underline ;"></span></p>
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				<p class="style_Normal style_Normal " style="line-height:2; text-align:justify; widows:2; orphans:2; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span style="mso-tab-count:1">  </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">“[H]azards must be defined in a way that apprises the employer of its obligations and identifies conditions or practices over which the employer can reasonably b</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">e<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">expected to exercise control.”<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">Pelron Corp.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, 12 BNA O</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">S</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">HC 1833, (No. 82-388, 1986) (citing<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">Davey Tree</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, 11 BNA OSHC 1898, 1899 (No. 77-2350, 1984)).<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">A hazard is a “condition that creates or contributes to an increased risk that an event causing death or se</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">ri</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">ous bodily harm to employees will occur.”<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">Baroid Div.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">of NL Indust., Inc.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, 660 F.2d 439, 444 (10th Cir. 1981).<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>If the evidence shows that a practice could result in serious physical harm “upon other than a freakish or utterly implausible concurrence of<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">ci</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">rcumstances”, then Complainant has established the ex</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">i</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">stence of a hazard.<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">See Nat’l Realty & Constr. Co., Inc. v. OSHRC</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, 489 F.2d 1257, 1265 n.33 (D.C. Cir. 1973). </span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "></span></p>
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				<p class="style_Normal style_Normal " style="line-height:2; text-align:justify; widows:2; orphans:2; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span style="mso-tab-count:1">  </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">The original basis for Complainant’s claim of a hazard is the API RP 54, Chapter 9, whi</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">ch</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>states: “During instances of unusual loading of the<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">d</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">errick or mast, such as when making any unusually hard pull, only the driller or other essential supervisory personnel should be on the rig floor, and no on</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">e</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>should be in the derrick, mast, or cellar.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">”<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">(Ex. C-10 at § 9.2.11). Complainant<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">argues</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">that<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Resp</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">o</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">ndent’s crew engaged in unusual loading when<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">it left its employees—other than Mullins—on the rig floor and in the mast while it pulled<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">and jarred<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">on the<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">second<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">pipe that had become stuc</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">k</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">. Respondent con</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">tends<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">that<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Complainant failed to establish this eleme</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">n</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">t in two ways: (1) he failed to define “unusu</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">al”, such that he could characterize Respondent’s activities as hazardous; and (2) the weight indicator only showed a pull of 160,000 pounds, which is well b</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">elow the 300,000-pound capacity of the rig and, thus,</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">not unusual.<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">The Court agrees with Complainan</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">t.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "></span></p>
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				<p class="style_Normal style_Normal " style="line-height:2; text-align:justify; widows:2; orphans:2; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span style="mso-tab-count:1">  </span>The hazardous condition</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">result</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">ed</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>from<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">a confluence of<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">employee location and specific rig operation;<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">namely, that</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">employees</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>(other than the Rig Operator)</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">should</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>not have been</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">o</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">n the rig<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">while</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">it<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">engaged in<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">“</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">a</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">n unusually hard pull”. In other words, an un</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">usually hard pull is not, of itself,<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">a violative condition. I</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">t only bec</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">omes</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>so when employees are located<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">on the rig<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">derrick, mast, or cellar</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">during such ac</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">tivity.<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">As it turns out,<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Respondent’s own safety pol</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">i</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">cy contains a prohibition that is similar</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, bu</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">t more detailed</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">,<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">than<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">API RP 54. (Ex. C-18 at<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">p.<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">23</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, No. 17</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">). According to Respondent’s policy, “Crews are to be off the rig floor, out of the cellar, and o</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">ut of the derrick when the following operations are b</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">e</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">ing conducted: unseating a pump, un-landing t</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">ubing, pulling the first joint of tubing,<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-weight:bold; font-style:italic; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-weight:bold; font-style:italic; ">jarring or pulling on stuck pipe, and when more than normal pulling force is required</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">.”</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>(</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">Id.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">) (emphasis added).<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Re</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">spondent was engaged in both<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">highlighted</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>activities i</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">n</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>the time period leading up to the rig<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">collapse</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">.<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">The Court finds “more than normal”</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>(Respondent’s policy term)</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>and “unusually hard”<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">(API’s term)<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">express the same<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">concept</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, albeit in slightly different<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">wa</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">ys</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">.<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "></span></p>
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				<p class="style_Normal style_Normal " style="line-height:2; text-align:justify; widows:2; orphans:2; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span style="mso-tab-count:1">  </span>Mullins<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">testified<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">that<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">“more than<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">normal pullin</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">g</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>force</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">,</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">”<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">per Respondent’s safety policy,<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">equates to a pull that exceeds the weight of the pipe string below the rig. (Tr.<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">388,<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">391; Ex. C-18 at 23)</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">. In other words, a normal pull would mean the weight<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">indicator should provide a reading that<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">is roughly eq</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">u</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">al to whatever the weight of the pipe string is</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, including the BHA</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">. This is consistent<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">with Brown’s testimony in response to questions from th</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">e</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>Court: “normal” pulling force is<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">generally<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">equal to the s</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">tring weight, which w</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">ould</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>vary depending</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>on how far d</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">o</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">wn the string has to reach and the type of equipment being used.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>(Tr. 469-471).<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">In this case, both Mullins and Brown testified<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">that the force necessary to<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">extract</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">the 96,000 pound<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">pipe</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>string</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>(after di</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">slodging the first stuck pipe) was<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">rough</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">ly 85–100k po</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">u</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">nds, which accounted for<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">minor<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">fluctuation</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">s</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>as the first<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">15 to 16<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">pipe<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">stands</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>were removed</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">. The Court finds, consistent with Mullins’ testimony, that the pull became “unusual” or “more than normal” wh</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">en</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>the rig pulling force was increased to 120,000 pound</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">s</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>and the jars were triggered. </span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">(Tr.<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">360</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, 433–34).<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>And further still, since the pipe remained stuck, the pulling force continued to be increase to 170,000 pounds, almost twice the pipe string weight.<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">(T</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">r. 435). All while Turner remained on the elevated t</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">u</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">be board above the rig floor.<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "></span></p>
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				<p class="style_Normal style_Normal " style="line-height:2; text-align:justify; widows:2; orphans:2; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span style="mso-tab-count:1">  </span>Respondent<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">argues that the pull was not unusual because<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">th</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">is</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>rig<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">wa</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">s capable of lifting up to 300</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">,000</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>pounds, and<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">that<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Brown<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">had<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">previously<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">been<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">o</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">n a rig</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">when it pulled</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>2</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">60</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">,000</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>pounds</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">. (Tr.<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">446, 459–60, 482–83</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">). The Court<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">f</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">inds that these two facts, in isolation, do not resolve the issue. W</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">hile the rig<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">may have been</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>cap</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">able of pulling<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">300</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">,000</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>pounds, the Court finds the prohibition against having employees<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">o</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">n the rig w</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">hi</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">le engaged in an “unusual” or “harder than normal” pu</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">l</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">l<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">relates more to the fact that Respondent’s crew</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, in this case,</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>was jarring stuck pipe at nearly twice the pipe string weight. Under other circumstances, a smooth pull on unstuck pipe, with no need<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">fo</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">r jarring, at 200,000 pounds of force, might not be c</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">o</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">nsidered “unusual” or “more than normal” by a reasonable person familiar with the industry. </span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "></span></p>
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				<p class="style_Normal style_Normal " style="line-height:2; text-align:justify; text-indent:1.27cm; widows:2; orphans:2; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">These facts further support the conclusion that this pull was “unusual” and “more than normal”:</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">(1)<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Mulli</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">ns</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>stopped when he was asked to increase the pull weigh</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">t</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>to 120,000 pounds and set the jars, to call Respondent’s Rig Supervisor<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Brown</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>from his truck to the operator’s station,<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">(2)</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Mullin</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">s<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">repeatedly asked<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">his supervisor,<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Brown</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">,<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">to remove Turner<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">from the e</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">le</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">vated platform,<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">based on his understanding that setti</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">n</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">g off jars and pulling<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">far<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">in excess of the string weight was<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">hazardous, and<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">a violation of company polic</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">y</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">;<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">and<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">(3)<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">the two other derrick hand<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">employees</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>decided to get off the rig floor when 120,000 pou</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">nds of force, and jarring, failed to f</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">r</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">ee the stuck p</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">i</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">pe.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "></span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">that<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Respondent failed to free its worksite of a hazard</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">ous condition for Turner, who continued to work in an elevated platform above</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>the derrick floor while “unusual” and “more than<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">normal” pulling force was applied to stuck oil well p</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">i</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">pe. </span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Complainant established the existence of a hazard.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "></span></p>
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				<p class="style_Normal style_Normal " style="line-height:2; text-align:center; widows:2; orphans:2; "><span style="font-size:12pt; text-decoration:underline ;font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; text-decoration:underline ;">Respondent and Its Industry Recognized the Hazard</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "></span></p>
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				<p class="style_Normal style_Normal " style="line-height:2; text-align:justify; widows:2; orphans:2; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span style="mso-tab-count:1">  </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">A hazard is recognized when either the cited<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">employer or its industry recognizes the risk of ha</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">rm from the cited conditions.<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">See Arcadian Corp.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, 20<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">B</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">NA OSHC 2001, 2008 (No. 93-0628, 2004). Probative evidence of industry recognition includes, amongst other things, voluntary industry standards, such as</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>those published by ANSI, NFPA, and API.<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">See, e.g.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">, Cargill, Inc.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, 10 BNA OSHC 1398 (No. 78-5707, 1982)</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">(NFPA); Kokosing Constr. Co., 17 BNA OSHC 1869 (No. 92-2596, 1996) (ANSI)</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">. </span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Regarding employer recognition, the Commission stated, “While an employer’s<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">safety precautions alone do not establish that the</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>employer believed that those precautions were necess</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">a</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">ry for compliance with the Act</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>. . .<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">precautions taken by an employer can be used to establish hazard recognition in conjunction with other evidence.”<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">B</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">everly Enters., Inc.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, 19 BNA OSHC 1161 (Nos. 91-31</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">44 et al., 2000) (emphasis added) (citing<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">Wheeling-Pi</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">t</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">tsburgh Corp.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, 16 BNA OSHC 1218 (No. 89-3389, 1993);<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">Waldon</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, 16 BNA OSHC<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">1052 (No. 89-3097), 1993</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">).</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
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				<p class="style_Normal style_Normal " style="line-height:2; text-align:justify; text-indent:1.27cm; widows:2; orphans:2; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">The<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">record establishe</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">d</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>that this<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">hazard<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">was recognized by the oil servicing<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">industry as a whole, as w</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">ell as Respondent specifically.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">
					</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">First,<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Respondent’s<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">p</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">olicy specifically state</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">d</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">that<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">employees shall not be on the rig while setting off jars, pulling on stuck pipe, or<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">engaging in a harder-than-</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">normal pull. (Ex. C-18). </span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">The record clearly established that</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>Respondent’s crew was engaged in all three of those<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">a</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">ctivities on July 23, 2015. Second,<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">each time he was asked to increase the force of the pull</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>to 120,000 pounds and<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">beyond</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">,<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Mullins asked</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>Bro</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">wn</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">to<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">remove Turner from the<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">elevated<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">tube deck</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">. </span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">T</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">his<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">reques</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">t was made<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">three<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">different<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">times. </span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">This demonstrated<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">M</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">ullins’ knowledge and awareness of<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Respondent’s policy,<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">and<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">was<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">specifically<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">directed to the person with authority over Respondent’s operatio</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">ns at the well site.<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Third</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">,<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">the<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">two other<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">deck hands</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>exit</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">ing</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">the rig floor</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>after<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Mullins increased the pull<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">to 120</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">,</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">000</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>and set off the jars,<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">demonstrated<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">their recognition of the hazard</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>and knowledge of Respondent’s policy.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">
					</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Alternatively,<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">if<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Brown’s testimony that he directed<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">the two<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">floor hands</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>to get off the<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">rig<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">floor<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">at some point is believed, it<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">further<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">demonstra</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">t</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">es that Respondent’s supervisor<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">recognized the hazard</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>and had knowledg</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">e of Respondent’s policy. </span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">See Missouri Basin Well Svc., Inc.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, 26 BNA OSHC 2314 (No. 13-1817, 2018) (finding supervisor’s recogniti</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">on of the hazard was imputable to his employer)</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">.<span>
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				<p class="style_Normal style_Normal " style="line-height:2; text-align:justify; widows:2; orphans:2; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span style="mso-tab-count:1">  </span>A</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">d</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">ditionally, the Court also finds<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">the well servicing industry recognize</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">d the hazard<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">at issue. </span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Though<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Nelson</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>was not qualified as an expert, he d</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">id</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>have experience performing investigations of oil and ga</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">s rigs</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>and<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">wa</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">s familiar with the API standards. (Tr.<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">1</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">42</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">). According to him,</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>API RP 54, Chapter 9 applie</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">d</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>to the work perfo</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">rmed by Respondent</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>at this site</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>(Tr.<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">226, 239</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">).</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "> Given the</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>similarities between the referenced API standard and<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Respondent’s own sa</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">fety policy</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>on this issue, the Court agrees.<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Respond</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">e</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">nt and its industry clearly recognized this hazard.<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
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				<p class="style_Normal style_Normal " style="line-height:2; text-align:center; widows:2; orphans:2; "><span style="font-size:12pt; text-decoration:underline ;font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; text-decoration:underline ;">The<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; text-decoration:underline ;font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; text-decoration:underline ;">Hazard Caused</span><span style="font-size:12pt; text-decoration:underline ;font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; text-decoration:underline ;"><span><span></span>
						</span>Serious Injury<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; text-decoration:underline ;font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; text-decoration:underline ;">and</span><span style="font-size:12pt; text-decoration:underline ;font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; text-decoration:underline ;"><span><span></span>
						</span>Death</span><span style="font-size:12pt; text-decoration:underline ;font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; text-decoration:underline ;"></span></p>
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				<p class="style_Normal style_Normal " style="line-height:2; text-align:justify; widows:2; orphans:2; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span style="mso-tab-count:1">  </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Complainant must show<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">that<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Respondent’s employees were “exposed to a hazard likely to cause death or ser</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">ious physical harm.”<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">Peacock Eng’g, Inc.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, 26 BNA OSHC</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">1588 (No. 11-2780, 2017). The appropriate standard for assessing this element is “not the likelihood of an accident or injury</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, but whether, if an accident occur</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">s</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, the results are likely to cause death o</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">r serious harm.”<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">Waldon</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, 16 BNA OSHC at 1060. Here,<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">t</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">he Court does not need to make a<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">speculative</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>assessment of possible injuries</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>from the hazardous condition</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">. As a result of th</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">e mobile rig collapse, one employee died when he fell from the elevated tube<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">deck, and two others received serious injuries, which</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">required hospitalization and multiple surgeries. Accordingly, the Court finds<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">that the violation was properly characterized<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">as serious, since the hazard was likely to cause death or serious physical ha</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">rm.<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "></span></p>
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				<p class="style_Normal style_Normal " style="line-height:2; text-align:center; widows:2; orphans:2; "><span style="font-size:12pt; text-decoration:underline ;font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; text-decoration:underline ;">Complainant Established Feasible Means to Abate<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; text-decoration:underline ;font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; text-decoration:underline ;">t</span><span style="font-size:12pt; text-decoration:underline ;font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; text-decoration:underline ;">he Hazard</span><span style="font-size:12pt; text-decoration:underline ;font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; text-decoration:underline ;"><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; text-decoration:underline ;font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; text-decoration:underline ;"></span></p>
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				<p class="style_Normal style_Normal " style="line-height:2; text-align:justify; widows:2; orphans:2; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span style="mso-tab-count:1">  </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; color:#000000; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">To establish this element,<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; color:#000000; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Complainant must “‘specify the proposed abatement measures and demonstrate both that t</span><span style="font-size:12pt; color:#000000; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">he measures are capable of being put into effect and that they would be effec</span><span style="font-size:12pt; color:#000000; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">tive in materially reducing the incidence of the haza</span><span style="font-size:12pt; color:#000000; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">r</span><span style="font-size:12pt; color:#000000; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">d.”’<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; color:#000000; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">Arcadian Corp.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; color:#000000; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, 20 BNA OSHC 2001 (quoting<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; color:#000000; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">Beverly Enters., Inc.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; color:#000000; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, 19 BNA OSHC 1161 (No. 91-3144<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; color:#000000; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">et al.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; color:#000000; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, 2000)). “Feasible</span><span style="font-size:12pt; color:#000000; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>means of abatement are established if “conscientious experts, familiar with<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; color:#000000; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">the industry’ would prescribe those means and methods</span><span style="font-size:12pt; color:#000000; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; color:#000000; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">to eliminate or materially reduce the recognized hazard.”<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; color:#000000; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">Id.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; color:#000000; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>(quoting<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; color:#000000; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">Pepperidge Farm, Inc.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; color:#000000; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, 17 BNA OSHC 1993)). Where an employer has taken steps to abate the recognized hazard, Complainant must show<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; color:#000000; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">those measures are inadequate.<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; color:#000000; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">Alabama Power Co.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; color:#000000; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, 13<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; color:#000000; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">B</span><span style="font-size:12pt; color:#000000; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">NA OSHC 1240 (citing<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; color:#000000; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">Cerro Metal Prods. Div., Marmon Grp., Inc.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; color:#000000; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, 12 BNA OSHC 1821, 1822 (No.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; color:#000000; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>78-5159, 1986)).<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "></span></p>
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				<p class="style_Normal style_Normal " style="line-height:2; text-align:justify; widows:2; orphans:2; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span style="mso-tab-count:1">  </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Complainant<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">established that</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>th</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">e proposed</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>abatement w</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">ould have been</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">adequate, and<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">easy to<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">implement</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">,</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">to address the hazard characterized in the</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">citation</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">. </span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Once Respondent determined that<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">a second piece of pipe was “real stuck”</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">;</span><span class="style_FootnoteReference style_FootnoteReference " style="font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; "><a name="ftnref7" href="#ftn7">8</a></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>that<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">th</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">e pulling force of the rig needed to be increased to 120,000 pounds</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">;</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>and<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">that<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">the jars needed to be re-set for</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>use,<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">derrick hand Turner should have been removed fr</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">o</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">m the elevated tube platform above the derrick floor</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">. Such action would have been</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">consisten</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">t with<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">API RP 54, 9.2.11<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">and Respondent’s</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>own safety policy. </span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Instead, despite<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">multiple requests from<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Rig Oper</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">ator<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Mullin</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">s</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>to remove him,</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>Turner was left aloft in<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">t</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">he tubing board for approximately 20–30 minutes</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>through significant increases in pulling for</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">ce and jarring</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">. (Tr. 433, 452, 476).</span><span class="style_FootnoteReference style_FootnoteReference " style="font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; "><a name="ftnref8" href="#ftn8">9</a></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">
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				<p class="style_Normal style_Normal " style="line-height:2; text-align:justify; text-indent:1.27cm; widows:2; orphans:2; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Based on these facts, the Court further rejects Respondent’s argument<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">that abatement was infeasible because the hazard purp</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">o</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">rtedly became apparent only a minute or two before the accident. T</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">he hazard did not</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">materialize when the<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">rig started to<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">lift,<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">wobble</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">,</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>and tip. By the terms of the API<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">standard<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">and Respondent’s own saf</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">ety policy, the hazard to Turner arose at the point t</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">h</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">e rig was no longer capable of removing the pipe string through the application of no</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">rmal pulling force. Indeed, this<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">was the<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">point at which Brown was called over to the rig<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">controls,<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">and Mullins began</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>his repeated requests to remove Turner from the<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">mast</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">platform</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">. This particular abatement was uncomplicated and required nothing more of R</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">espondent than<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">to<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">follow industry standards,<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">comply with<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">its</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>own</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>safety</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>policy, and listen to its<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Rig</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">O</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">perator. </span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Turn</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">er could have simply been instructed to get off the r</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">i</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">g. </span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Accordingly, the Court finds Complainant established a feasible means to abate th</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">e hazard.<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "></span></p>
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				<p class="style_Normal style_Normal " style="line-height:2; text-align:center; widows:2; orphans:2; "><span style="font-size:12pt; text-decoration:underline ;font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; text-decoration:underline ;">Respondent’s Employees Were</span><span style="font-size:12pt; text-decoration:underline ;font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; text-decoration:underline ;"><span><span></span>
						</span>Exposed</span><span style="font-size:12pt; text-decoration:underline ;font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; text-decoration:underline ;"><span><span></span>
						</span>to<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; text-decoration:underline ;font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; text-decoration:underline ;">a</span><span style="font-size:12pt; text-decoration:underline ;font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; text-decoration:underline ;"><span><span></span>
						</span>Hazard<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; text-decoration:underline ;font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; text-decoration:underline ;"></span></p>
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				<p class="style_Normal style_Normal " style="line-height:2; text-align:justify; widows:2; orphans:2; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span style="mso-tab-count:1">  </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">As discussed above, Turner was exposed to the hazard whe</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">n he was allowed to remain on the elevated tube platf</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">o</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">rm, 60 feet above the derrick floor, while the rig pulling force was<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">gradually<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">increa</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">sed to nearly double the pipe string weight, and jars were set off. Employee exposure to the hazard was established.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "></span></p>
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				<p class="style_Normal style_Normal " style="line-height:2; text-align:center; widows:2; orphans:2; "><span style="font-size:12pt; text-decoration:underline ;font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; text-decoration:underline ;">Respondent Had Knowledge of the Violation<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; text-decoration:underline ;font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; text-decoration:underline ;"></span></p>
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				<p class="style_Normal style_Normal " style="line-height:2; text-align:justify; text-indent:1.27cm; widows:2; orphans:2; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">T</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">o prov</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">e</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">this element</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, Complainant must show Respondent knew or, with the exercise of reasona</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">ble diligence, could have known of the violation.<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">Dun-Par Engineered Form Co.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, 12 BNA OSHC 1962, 1965 (No. 82-928, 19</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">86). The key is whether Respondent was aware of the<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">c</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">onditions constituting a violation, not whether it understood the conditions violated</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>the Act.<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">Phoenix Roofing, Inc.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, 17 BNA OSHC 1076, 1079–80 (No. 90-2148, 1995). Complainant can prove knowledge of a</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">n<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">employer through the knowledge, actual or construct</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">i</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">ve, of its supervisory employees.<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">Dover Elevator Co.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, 16 BNA OSHC 1281, 1286 (No. 91-862, 1993). If a supervisor is, or should be, aware of<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">a hazardous condition</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, it is reasonable to charge the employe</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">r with that knowledge.<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">See Mountain States Tel. & Tel</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; "><span><span></span>
						</span>Co. v. OSHRC</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, 623 F.2d 155, 158 (10th Cir. 1980).</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">
					</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "></span></p>
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				<p class="style_Normal style_Normal " style="line-height:2; text-align:justify; text-indent:1.27cm; widows:2; orphans:2; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Brown,<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Respondent’s on-site supervisor,<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">was standing right next to Mullins from the time the<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">decision was made to increase the pulling force to 120,0</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">00 and re-set the jars, to<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">the<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">point right before the</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">rig tipped over. (Tr.<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">372–73</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">). Brown estimated th</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">at</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>this</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">lasted approximately</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>20 minutes.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "> He was specifically aware of the conditions of the rig, the location of derrick hand Turner, and the multiple<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">requests made by Mullins to remove Turner from the ri</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">g</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>mast. Rig Supervisor Brown’s knowledge is imputed</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>to Respondent.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">
					</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Complainant established employer knowledge of the violative condition. </span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Accordingly, the Court finds Complainant established<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">the</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">prim</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">a facie<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">elements of<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">the general duty clause<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">violation</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">alleged<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">in Citation 1, Item 1.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "></span></p>
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				<p class="style_Normal style_Normal " style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:16px; text-align:center; widows:2; orphans:2; "><span style="font-size:12pt; text-decoration:underline ;font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; text-decoration:underline ;">Respondent Failed to<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; text-decoration:underline ;font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; text-decoration:underline ;">Prove the Affirmative Defense of </span><span style="font-size:12pt; text-decoration:underline ;font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; text-decoration:underline ;"><span><span></span>
						</span>Unpreventable Employee Misconduct</span><span style="font-size:12pt; text-decoration:underline ;font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; text-decoration:underline ;"></span></p>
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				<p class="style_Normal style_Normal " style="line-height:2; text-align:justify; widows:2; orphans:2; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span style="mso-tab-count:1">  </span>In order to prevail on a claim of unpr</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">eventable employee misconduct, Respondent must show:<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">(</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">1) it ha</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">d</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>established work rules designed to prevent</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>the violation; (2) it ha</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">d</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>adequately communicated those rules to its employees; (3) it ha</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">d</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>taken steps to discover violations of the rules; and (4) i</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">t</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">effectively enforce</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">d</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>the rules when violations<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">we</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">re</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">detected.<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">Am. Eng’g & Dev. Corp.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, 23 BNA OSHC 2093, 2096–97 (No. 10-0359, 2012).<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">In other words, it is incumbent upon Respondent to “demonstrate that the actions of the employee were a departure from a</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>uniformly and effectively communicated and enforced<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">w</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">orkrule [sic].”<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">Archer-Western C</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">ontractors Ltd.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, 15 BNA OSHC 1013 (No. 87-1067, 1991)</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">
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				<p class="style_Normal style_Normal " style="line-height:2; text-align:justify; text-indent:1.27cm; widows:2; orphans:2; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">During the examination of Brown, Respondent<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">asked<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">whether an employee could be disciplined for his/her failure to</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>exercise stop work authority in a situation that cal</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">l</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">s for it. (Tr. 462). </span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Complainant objected on the basis that such evidence was irrelevant<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">in light of</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>Respondent’s discovery re</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">sponses</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, whe</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">rein it stated three separate times that “it’s not currently as</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">serting an employee misconduct defense but reserves t</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">h</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">e right to assert such defense at a later time.” (Tr. 463–65);<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">see also C</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">o</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">mpl’t Br.<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">at 23–24</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "> Respondent</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>said that it<span>
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						</span>compelled to re</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">-assert<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">the</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>affirmative defense</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>at trial</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, with no</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>prior</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>notice<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">to Complainant or the Court,</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>because Mullins testifie</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">d</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>he exercised his stop work authority by pausing the operation and asking at various points to have Turner come down from the tubing board.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>(Tr. 408–409). Respondent, without producing any evidence<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">in<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">support</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, argued this was inconsistent with deposition</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">testimony Mullins had given in a separate, civil case. (Tr. 465–67)</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">. The Court left open the issue of whether the defense was still availa</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">ble to Respondent</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>and directed the parties to address<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">it</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>in the</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">ir post-trial briefs. (Tr. 467–68).</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "></span></p>
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				<p class="style_Normal style_Normal " style="line-height:2; text-align:justify; text-indent:1.27cm; widows:2; orphans:2; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Although given th</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">e</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>opportunity to do so,<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Respondent did not pursue the matter further in its examination of witnesses</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>or</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>in its post-trial brief.<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Thus, altho</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">ugh Respondent asserted the<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">unpreventable<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">employee misconduct d</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">efense in its<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">Answer</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, the Court finds its</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">discovery r</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">e</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">sponses and failure to<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">argu</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">e the defense</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>in its<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">post-trial<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">brief are tantamount to abandonment.</span><span style="font-style:italic; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-style:italic; ">
					</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">Georgia-Pacific Corp</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">., 15<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">BNA OSHC<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">1127, 1991 CCH OSHD ¶29,395 (No. 89-2713, 1991).</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Accordingly, the Cour</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">t rejects any claim<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">of unpreventable<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">employee miscond</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">u</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">ct</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>by Respondent. </span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Citation 1, Item 1<span>
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						</span>be AFFIRMED.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "></span></p>
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				<p class="style_Normal style_Normal " style="line-height:2; text-align:justify; text-indent:1.27cm; widows:2; orphans:2; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">In calculating appropriate penalties for affirmed violations, Sectio</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">n 17(j) of the Act requires the Commission give due consideration to f</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">our criteria:</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">(1) the size of the employer’s business</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">,</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>(2) the gravity of the violation, (3) the good faith of the employer, and (4) the employer’s prior history of violations. Gravity<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">is the primary consideration and is determined by the number of employ</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">ees exposed, the duration of the exposure, the precau</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">t</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">ions taken against injury, and the likelihood of an actual injury.<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">J.A. Jones Construction Co.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, 15 BNA OSHC 2201 (No. 87-2059, 1993)</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">. It is well established that the Commission and its judges conduct<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">d</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">e novo</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>penalty determinations and have full discretio</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">n</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>to assess penalties based on the facts of each case and the applicable statutory criteria. </span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">Valdak Corp</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">., 17 BNA OSHC 1135 (No. 93-</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">0239, 1995);<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">Allied Structural Steel</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, 2 BNA OSHC 1457 (No. 1681, 1975)</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "></span></p>
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				<p class="style_Normal style_Normal " style="line-height:2; text-align:justify; widows:2; orphans:2; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span style="mso-tab-count:1">  </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Complainant<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">proposed</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>a penalty of $7,000</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, which, a</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">t</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>the time of the citation, was the highest penalty allowed for a serious violation of the Act.<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>Complainant<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">determined<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">that<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Respondent had roughly 5,000 employees,<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">and therefore,<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">did not<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">reduc</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">e the prop</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">osed penalty</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>based on<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">the employer’s<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">size.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>(Ex. C-1).</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>Complainant also determined Respondent was not eligible for a reduction based on history beca</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">use of previous OSHA violation</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">s at other jobsites</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">. (</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Ex. C-3</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">). Further,<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Complainant<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">declined</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>to apply a<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">good</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>faith</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>penalty reduction. Based on the totality of c</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">i</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">rcumstances discussed above, the Court finds that a penalty of<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">$7,000<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">for Citation 1, Item 1<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">is appropriate.<span>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Based<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">upon the foregoing Findings of Fact and Conclus</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">i</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">ons of Law, it is ORDERED</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "></span></p>
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						</span>1<span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">is<span>
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						</span>as a SERIOUS violatio</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">n</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span>of the Act</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, and a penalty of $7,000 is ASSESSED.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span style="mso-tab-count:1">  </span>
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				<p class="style_Normal style_Normal " style="text-align:justify; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Denver, Colorado</span></p>
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					<a name="ftn0" href="#ftnref0"><span class="style_FootnoteReference style_FootnoteReference " style="font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; ">1 </span></a><span><span></span>
					</span>Served by Complainant on February<span><span></span>
					</span>28, 2017 and March 2, 2017.</p>
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					<a name="ftn1" href="#ftnref1"><span class="style_FootnoteReference style_FootnoteReference " style="font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; ">2 </span></a>. According to Mullins, a servicing rig serves two<span>
					</span>functions: completion and workover operations. (Tr. 319). This case focuses on workover operations, which are implemented when something goes wrong at the well, such as a stuck piece of pipe. (Tr. 319).</p>
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					<a name="ftn2" href="#ftnref2"><span class="style_FootnoteReference style_FootnoteReference " style="font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; ">3 </span></a>. The mast is also referred to as the derrick. (Tr. 322).<span>
					</span><span><span></span>
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					<a name="ftn3" href="#ftnref3"><span class="style_FootnoteReference style_FootnoteReference " style="font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; ">4 </span></a>. An individual section of pipe is referred to as a “joint”, whereas two pieces of pipe attached by a collar<span><span></span>
					</span>are referred to as a “stand”. (Tr. 342). A joint is<span>
					</span>typically 31.5- to 32.5-feet<span><span></span>
					</span>long. (Tr. 431). Thus, a stand is roughly 65-feet long, which explains the position of a derrick hand in a 60-foot tall perch. (Tr. 431)</p>
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				<p class="style_Normal style_Normal style_FootnoteText style_FootnoteText " style="text-align:justify; ">
					<a name="ftn4" href="#ftnref4"><span class="style_FootnoteReference style_FootnoteReference " style="font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; ">5 </span></a>. The BHA is the first thing sent<span>
					</span>down the well. (Tr. 414).<span><span></span>
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				<p class="style_Normal style_Normal style_FootnoteText style_FootnoteText " style="text-align:justify; ">
					<a name="ftn5" href="#ftnref5"><span class="style_FootnoteReference style_FootnoteReference " style="font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; ">6 </span></a>. According to Mullins,<span>
					</span>this “jolt” shakes the entire servicing rig, not merely the portion of the pipe below the surface. (Tr. 363–64).<span><span></span>
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				<p class="style_Normal style_Normal style_FootnoteText style_FootnoteText " style="text-align:justify; ">
					<a name="ftn6" href="#ftnref6"><span class="style_FootnoteReference style_FootnoteReference " style="font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; ">7 </span></a>. This is one area where Mullins’ and Brown’s testimony differed. According to Brown,<span><span></span>
					</span>extracting<span>
					</span>the first 15 stands<span>
					</span>of pipe<span>
					</span>only took 10–15<span><span></span>
					</span>minutes. (Tr. 477).<span><span></span>
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					<a name="ftn7" href="#ftnref7"><span class="style_FootnoteReference style_FootnoteReference " style="font-family:Calibri; font-family:Times New Roman; ">8 </span></a><span><span></span>
					</span>As described by Rig Supervisor Brown.<span>
					</span>(Tr.<span><span></span>
					</span>433).<span><span></span>
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