PINELLAS PARK, Fla. — A man working on a renovation project was killed on the job.
According to Pinellas Park Police, the accident happened at a building located at 6651 102nd Ave. on Thursday morning.
Investigators said it appeared the man was operating a motorized piece of equipment when he became trapped between it and a door frame.
While operating a 14-foot Scissor Lift, 27-year-old Richard Collett was standing on top of the lift using a joystick type controller to move it out of the building.
He was trying to exit a double door entrance and trapped his head between the top of the lift rail and the door frame, causing severe trauma to his head.
Collett was an electrician apprentice and an employee of Sunrise Electric of Pinellas, LLC.
OSHA investigators were notified and responded to conduct their own investigation as is normal procedure for work related death investigations.
The death of Mr. Collett appears to be an accident and an autopsy will be performed by the Pinellas County Medical Examiner's Office.
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PINELLAS PARK, Fla. --
The Pinellas Park Police responded to the death of a worker Thursday morning
According to police, an electrician apprentice was pinned between a piece of motorized equipment and a door frame around 10 a.m.
The worker has been identified as 27-year-old Richard Louis Collett of Dunedin. Collett was moving a fourteen-foot scissor lift out of the exit of a building when his head was trapped between the lift rail and the door frame, reportedly causing trauma to his head.
Collett was discovered unresponsive by a coworker and he was pronounced dead at the scene at the arrival of paramedics. He was helping to provide renovations to an abandoned building.
Collett worked for Sunrise Electric of Pinellas and was doing sub-contractor work for Down Under Construction Services at the time of the incident.
The incident appears to be accidental and a further autopsy will be performed by the Pinellas County Medical Examiner, as well as a separate investigation by OSHA.
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PINELLAS PARK, Fla. (WFLA) – A man died after getting trapped by a piece of equipment while rennovating a building in Pinellas Park Thursday morning.
Police and fire responded to a report of an industrial accident on 102nd Avenue North just after 10 a.m.
According to Pinellas Park police, Richard Collett, 27, of Dunedin, was operating a 14-foot scissor lift as part of a building renovation project.
Prior to his death, Collett was standing on top of the scissor lift, using a joystick-type controller to move the lift out of the building.
Collett tried to exit a double door and trapped his head between the top of the lift and the door frame, which caused severe trauma to his head.
He was located by a co-worker injured and unresponsive.
Paramedics responded and Collett was pronounced dead at the scene.
Collett was an employee of Sunrise Electric of Pinellas, LLC. The company was performing sub-contractor work for Down Under Construction Services.
OSHA investigators responded to conduct their own investigation, as is normal procedure.
OHIO COUNTY, WV:
A worker died Thursday in Ohio County after a tracked vehicle moving a piece of natural gas pipe slipped on frozen ground and struck him, according to the Ohio County Emergency Management Agency’s director.
Director Lou Vargo said the man worked for a contractor for MarkWest Energy Partners, L.P., though he didn’t know the name of the contracting company Thursday night. He said he didn’t know whether the pipeline was meant to carry natural gas or some other product related to natural gas mining.
Vargo said he wasn’t sure whether the victim was from West Virginia, and said family members still need to be notified. He said the county sheriff’s office, which is leading the local investigation, would be releasing the victim’s name.
Ohio sheriff’s Deputy B. Frey said the incident occurred around 1 p.m. and the investigation is ongoing. Vargo said it happened several miles outside West Liberty, probably 400-500 yards from the intersection of GC&P and Dement roads.
Vargo said a trackhoe, a tracked vehicle with an arm, was carrying up a hill a new section of pipe suspended by a belt from its arm. He said two workers, the victim among them, were holding ropes attached to the suspended 2-foot diameter pipe in order to control its direction.
He said the victim was holding the rope downhill from the vehicle when it slipped on the ice.
“He was dead on arrival when West Liberty Emergency Medical Services arrived,” Vargo said. “It was just a tragic accident that occurred.”
He said that in addition to the sheriff’s office, the West Liberty Volunteer Fire Department/EMS and county medical examiner responded to the scene.
MarkWest is a subsidiary of MPLX LP, a master limited partnership formed by Marathon Petroleum Corporation. Jamal T. Kheiry, communications manager for Marathon Petroleum, emailed the following statement Thursday night and said he didn’t have any additional information to provide at that time:
“At approximately 1:00 p.m. today, while installing new pipe on a right of way in Ohio County, West Virginia, a subcontractor was fatally injured. Federal and state regulatory agencies have been contacted. Work on this project was immediately suspended and MarkWest issued a safety stand-down on all similar work sites across the Tri-state region while we thoroughly investigate this tragic event. Our thoughts and prayers are with the family, friends and co-workers of the deceased.”
MarkWest Energy Partners, L.P. engages in the gathering, processing, and
transportation of natural gas. The company is also involved in the
gathering, transportation, fractionation, storage, and marketing of
natural gas liquids; and the gathering and transportation of crude oil.
It has presence in various natural gas resource plays, including the
Marcellus Shale, Utica Shale, Huron/Berea Shale, Haynesville Shale,
Woodford Shale, and Granite Wash formation. MarkWest Energy GP, L.L.C.
serves as the general partner of the company. MarkWest Energy Partners,
L.P. was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in Denver, Colorado.
Pipeline to carry natural-gas liquids from Ohio to Texas moving forward
Published: July 22, 2014 - 11:00 AM
By Akron Beacon Journal Staff
Bob Downing
Plans for a pipeline to carry natural-gas liquids from Ohio to the Gulf Coast are progressing.
Dubbed the Utica Marcellus Texas Pipeline Project, the pipeline is being developed by Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP and its partner, MarkWest Utica EMG LLC. It is designed to serve the Utica and Marcellus shale regions in Ohio and surrounding states.
New details for the project, first announced in August, have emerged on a fact sheet posted on Kinder Morgan’s website.
The pipeline would run from a proposed natural-gas processing plant in Uhrichsville in southern Tuscarawas County to Mont Belvieu, Texas.
The new processing plant and pipeline are estimated to cost $1 billion, although no figures have been posted.
The project calls for converting 1,005 miles of Kinder Morgan’s 24-inch and 26-inch Tennessee Gas Pipeline system, switching it from carrying natural gas to transporting related liquids such as ethane, butane and propane.
The existing pipeline runs from Mercer County in western Pennsylvania to Natchitoches, La. A new line, stretching about 200 miles, would be built from Natchitoches to Mont Belvieu.
The project also includes about 160 miles of new laterals and interconnects in Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee and Mississippi.
The pipeline would have an initial capacity of 150,000 barrels per day. That would be expanded to 400,000 barrels per day with the addition of pump stations.
The new pipeline is scheduled to be in full service by the second quarter of 2017.
Houston-based Kinder Morgan would own 75 percent of the liquids pipeline and Denver-based MarkWest Utica EMG would have the option to invest in the remaining 25 percent.
Kinder Morgan would operate the new pipeline.
That company also formed a partnership with Houston-based Targa Resources Partners LP to build a fractionation facility to separate liquids at Mont Belvieu.
In related news, TransCanada Corp.’s ANR Pipeline Co. is conducting an open sign-up season through July 28 for its proposed ANR East Pipeline across northern Ohio.
The pipeline would run from gas-processing facilities in Columbiana and Carroll counties in eastern Ohio to near Defiance in northwest Ohio, where it would connect with existing and proposed pipelines to the Gulf Coast and to Detroit, Ontario and the Midwest.
The pipeline, scheduled to be operational in the third quarter of 2017, would improve access to Utica gas to 35 Midwest utilities that generate electricity and either burn natural gas or could switch to natural gas in the future.
