NORTH
DAKOTA-DEATH REPORTED IN OILFIELD INCIDENT.
ANOTHER EMPLOYEE WAS INJURED WHILE REPAIRING EQUIPMENT AT A QEP
RESOURCES OIL WELL LOCATION NEAR MANDAREE.
January 14, 2014
An oil service company owner has died and another employee was injured while repairing equipment at a QEP Resources oil well location near Mandaree.
According to initial reports from the Occupational
Safety and Health Administration’s Bismarck office, the incident involving
Legendary Field Services of Watford City occurred Tuesday afternoon.
Office supervisor Eric Brooks said it appears from
preliminary reports that the men were removing a tube on the well heater
component when fluids somehow ignited. Both men were burned and the owner’s
injuries were fatal, he said.
The OSHA investigation will continue.
This is the first oilfield fatality reported for 2015
and the first since Nov. 18, when Daniel Kintyhht, 32, died from a head injury
after slipping and falling on an icy rig mat on a Nabors Drilling USA rig
located south of Williston.
Brooks said, since 2010, oil field deaths account for
half of workplace fatalities in North Dakota
Source: Bismark Tribune