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Frontier Drilling LLC: OSHA inspections and violations

Stanton, Texas · Drilling Oil and Gas Wells · NAICS 213111

6inspections
22citation items
$62,282current penalties
Sep 20, 2022last inspection

OSHA has inspected Frontier Drilling LLC 6 times in Texas since 1983.

The latest one began on Sep 20, 2022 as a planned inspection, in Kent.

Those inspections ended with 22 citation items: 13 serious and 9 other-than-serious.

Penalties were first proposed at $88,860 and now stand at $62,282, 30% lower after settlements or reviews.

Grounding and circuit protection comes up most often in these citations: 3 items under 1910.304.

How that compares: the median penalty per cited inspection for mining and oil and gas employers since 2015 is $2,880, and Frontier Drilling LLC averages $15,446 (4 cited inspections).

1 inspection on this page followed a fatal incident.

Frontier Drilling LLC: OSHA citation items per year, 1983 to 2022
Citation items per year, by inspection date.

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Inspection history

Inspection 346242209 OPENED SEP 20, 2022Closed

Planned · Complete · Safety · 7 employees at the site · Closed Jan 25, 2023

Frontier Rig #26 26 Miles W Direction From Orla, Kent, TX 79855 · Drilling Oil and Gas Wells · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 1
29 CFR 1910.151(c) · First aid and eyewash
Serious$4,754$3,000Nov 10, 2022Final
Citation 1, item 2
29 CFR 1910.304(c)(2) · Grounding and circuit protection
Serious$4,754$3,000Nov 10, 2022Final
Citation 1, item 3
29 CFR 1910.304(g)(5) · Grounding and circuit protection
Serious$7,925$5,500Nov 10, 2022Final
Citation 2, item 1
29 CFR 1910.303(b)(2) · Electrical equipment, general requirements
Other-than-serious$890$500Nov 10, 2022Final

Inspection 345255061 OPENED APR 6, 2021Closed

Planned · Complete · Safety · 50 employees at the site · Closed Mar 4, 2022

Ralphie 7 Unit, Well 1h 10.9 Mile Se From Orla, Orla, TX 79770 · Drilling Oil and Gas Wells · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 1a
29 CFR 1910.134(f)(2) · Respiratory protection
Other-than-serious$9,011$8,000Sep 20, 2021Final
Citation 1, item 1b
29 CFR 1910.134(g)(1)(i)(a) · Respiratory protection
Other-than-serious$4,505$0Sep 20, 2021Final
Citation 1, item 3
29 CFR 1910.134(l)(1) · Respiratory protection
Serious$4,505$2,500Sep 20, 2021Final
Citation 1, item 4
29 CFR 1910.304(g)(5) · Grounding and circuit protection
Serious$4,505$2,500Sep 20, 2021Final

Inspection 344263264 OPENED AUG 21, 2019Closed

Planned · Complete · Safety · 150 employees at the site · Closed Mar 26, 2020

23.5 Miles Nw Direction From Ft. Stockton Leased Name: Gunpowder 21-16 Wb1 Well No. 801h, Pecos, TX 79772 · Drilling Oil and Gas Wells · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 1
29 CFR 1910.334(a)(3)(i) · Using electrical equipment
Other-than-serious$11,449$7,000Feb 14, 2020Final
Citation 1, item 2
29 CFR 1910.1200(h)(3)(ii) · Hazard communication
Other-than-serious$11,449$6,000Feb 14, 2020Final
Citation 2, item 1
29 CFR 1910.1200(g)(8) · Hazard communication
Other-than-serious$1,071$500Feb 14, 2020Final

Inspection 342608965 OPENED AUG 28, 2017Closed

Fatality or catastrophe · Partial · Safety · 9 employees at the site · Closed Oct 31, 2018

Patricia Unit 14812-ah, Martin County, 11 Miles N. Of Stanton, Stanton, TX 79782 · Drilling Oil and Gas Wells · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Incident on Aug 28, 2017 (fatal): Employee is struck by beam and is killed

At 5:30 p.m. on August 28, 2017, an employee was using a hammer to hit a pipe wrench while on a ladder. The employee was struck in the head by a spreader beam pivot , crushing his skull. The employee was killed due to blunt force trauma.

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 1a
29 CFR 1910.23(b)(8) · Ladders in general industry
Serious$11,641$11,641Feb 7, 2018Final
Citation 1, item 1b
29 CFR 1910.23(b)(9) · Ladders in general industry
Serious$0$0Feb 7, 2018Final
Citation 1, item 2
29 CFR 1910.180(h)(4)(ii) · Crawler locomotive and truck cranes
Serious$11,641$11,641Feb 7, 2018Final

Inspection 342424546 OPENED JUN 21, 2017Closed

Planned · Complete · Safety · 22 employees at the site · Closed Aug 4, 2017

Patricia Unit 1 4801 Bh, Stanton, TX 79782 · Drilling Oil and Gas Wells · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

No citations from this inspection.

Inspection 16213597 OPENED AUG 17, 1983Closed

Planned · Complete · Safety · 14 employees at the site · Closed Aug 26, 1985

5 Mi Sw Off Hwy 83 & Fm 53, Winters, TX 79567 · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 1a
29 CFR 1910.23(a)(2) · Guarding floor and wall openings and holes
Serious$240$150Sep 2, 1983Closed
Citation 1, item 1b
29 CFR 1910.27(d)(3) · Fixed ladders
Serious$0$0Sep 2, 1983Closed
Citation 1, item 2
29 CFR 1910.36(b)(2) · Exit route design
Serious$240$100Sep 2, 1983Closed
Citation 1, item 3
29 CFR 1910.133(a)(1) · Eye and face protection
Serious$120$100Sep 2, 1983Closed
Citation 1, item 4
29 CFR 1910.212(a)(1) · Machine guarding
Serious$160$150Sep 2, 1983Closed
Citation 2, item 1
29 CFR 1904.5(b) · Determination of work-relatedness
Other-than-serious$0$0Sep 2, 1983Closed
Citation 2, item 2 Other-than-serious$0$0Sep 2, 1983Closed
Citation 2, item 3
29 CFR 1910.151(b) · First aid and eyewash
Other-than-serious$0$0Sep 2, 1983Closed

The rules behind these citations

Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.

29 CFR 1904.5 · Determination of work-relatedness

29 CFR 1910.1200 · Hazard communication

29 CFR 1910.1200(g)(8)

(8) The employer shall maintain in the workplace copies of the required safety data sheets for each hazardous chemical, and shall ensure that they are readily accessible during each work shift to employees when they are in their work area(s). (Electronic access and other alternatives to maintaining paper copies of the safety data sheets are permitted as long as no barriers to immediate employee access in each workplace are created by such options.)

29 CFR 1910.1200(h)(3)(ii)

(ii) The physical, health, simple asphyxiation, combustible dust, and pyrophoric gas hazards, as well as hazards not otherwise classified, of the chemicals in the work area;

29 CFR 1910.133 · Eye and face protection

29 CFR 1910.133(a)(1)

(a) General requirements. (1) The employer shall ensure that each affected employee uses appropriate eye or face protection when exposed to eye or face hazards from flying particles, molten metal, liquid chemicals, acids or caustic liquids, chemical gases or vapors, or potentially injurious light radiation.

29 CFR 1910.134 · Respiratory protection

29 CFR 1910.141 · Sanitation

29 CFR 1910.151 · First aid and eyewash

29 CFR 1910.180 · Crawler locomotive and truck cranes

29 CFR 1910.212 · Machine guarding

29 CFR 1910.23 · Ladders in general industry

29 CFR 1910.27 · Fixed ladders

29 CFR 1910.303 · Electrical equipment, general requirements

29 CFR 1910.304 · Grounding and circuit protection

29 CFR 1910.334 · Using electrical equipment

29 CFR 1910.36 · Exit route design

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