Incident date: 2019-04-19
NAICS industry code: 213112

An employee on the walking beam of a pumping unit had just removed the horse head of a pump jack when a bolt on the beam broke and the beam tilted over. The employee slid down the beam until he hit a motor at the bottom of the pumping unit and fell to the ground approximately 6 to 7 feet below. He was hospitalized with a head laceration and left leg laceration.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Oil drilling rigs and machinery
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate