Culberson Construction, LLC: OSHA inspections and violations

Incident on May 16, 2023 (fatal): Employee dies when electrocuted by pit arc flash

At 3:00 p.m. on May 16, 2023, an employee working as a supervisor for an oil and gas drilling company was operating a powered industrial truck (PIT). The employee was using the PIT boom to reposition a pipe which had been removed from a tank battery. The employee raised the boom and made contact with live power lines. The employee exited the energized PIT and tried to extinguish the flames under the vehicle. The employee died when he was electrocuted by a resulting arc flash.

Incident on Feb 21, 2019: Employee is struck by rolling pipe and receives leg fracture

At 3:30 p.m. on February 21, 2019, an employee laid down tag line for a pipe. As the employee walked away in a sideways direction and looked down while walking, the employee did not see the sixteen-inch diameter by thirty-five foot long pipe roll towards the employee. The employee was struck by the pipe and received a leg fracture and hospitalized for treatment.

Incident on Mar 14, 2017: Workers injured in caught between, fall events

At 3:00 p.m. on April 4, 2017, Employee #1, employed by a construction company, was unloading pipe from a pipe trailer at a job site. The pipes were Standard Wall Line Pipe with an outer diameter of 3.5 inches. He was manually rolling them off the rear of the trailer when a pipe caught on the lip of the front plate guard. Employee #1, in attempting to free the pipe, had his finger pinched between the pipe and the trailer. Emergency services were called, and Employee #1 was transported to the hospital. He was admitted, and treatment included the amputation of his left hand middle fingertip. When the employer reported the above injury, it also reported a separate, earlier incident involving a different employee and not previously reported. On March 14, 2017, Employee #2 was working from a portable 4-foot 6-inches scaffold and using a pipe wrench to tighten a bolt on a 4-inch flange. As he pulled the wrench towards him, the wrench came loose from the bolt, he lost his balance, and he fell to the ground. Emergency services were called, and Employee #2 was transported to the hospital. He was admitted and treated for fractures to both arms and his nose.