Sundown Operating, Inc.: OSHA inspections and violations
Plains, Texas · Drilling Oil and Gas Wells · NAICS 213111
4inspections
3citation items
$5,281current penalties
Jul 12, 2020last inspection
Since 2011, OSHA inspectors have visited Sundown Operating, Inc. in Texas 4 times.
The most recent inspection opened on Jul 12, 2020 on a referral, in Whiteface.
In all, OSHA issued 3 citation items: 2 serious and 1 other-than-serious.
The proposed penalties came to $8,802; today they stand at $5,281, 40% less.
The rule cited most here is 1910.134 (respiratory protection), 2 times.
Among mining and oil and gas employers, the typical cited inspection since 2015 ends with a $2,880 penalty. Sundown Operating, Inc. averages $2,641 across 2 cited inspections.
Sundown Operating, Inc. also files yearly injury logs with OSHA, summarized below.
It reported 2 severe injuries to OSHA since 2015.
Citation items per year, by inspection date.
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Referral · Partial · Safety · 40 employees at the site · Closed Nov 16, 2020
Apache Corporation, West Levelland Unit #29, Cochran County, 3.5 Miles West Of Whiteface Hwy. 125, Whiteface, TX 79379 · Support Activities for Oil and Gas Operations · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps
Incident on Jul 10, 2020: Employee's hip is fractured when struck by falling equipment
At 2:15 p.m. on July, 10, 2020, an employee was assisting with a snubbing operation when a lug nut to a hydraulic business oil platform fell and struck him on the leg. The employee was hospitalized to treat a fractured hip bone.
No citations from this inspection.
Inspection 343563995 OPENED OCT 25, 2018Closed
Referral · Partial · Safety · 4 employees at the site · Closed Nov 28, 2018
Incident on Oct 3, 2018: Employee fractures knee when thrown off rig while unhooking
At 5:30 p.m. on October 3, 2018, Employee #1 was unhooking the block. The employee went up to unhook the block and the operator clutched in the rig and threw the employee off the rig. The employee was not wearing any Fall Protection. The employee sustained a fractured left knee and was hospitalized.
From the Form 300A summaries employers file with OSHA each year. Rate = recordable cases per 100 full-time workers.
In 2018, the Sundown site logged 1 recordable injury or illness among about 83 workers: 0.9 per 100 full-time workers, against a median of 0.2 for its industry. Those cases cost 58 days away from work.
Site and year
Workers
Cases
Days-away cases
Rate
Industry median
Sundown Operating, Inc.
Sundown · 2018
83
1
1
0.9
0.2
Severe injury reports
Employers must report any work-related amputation, in-patient hospitalization or loss of an eye to OSHA within 24 hours. 2 reports on file.
Employees of Sundown Operating, Inc., and Axis Energy Services, LLC were working at an old oil/gas well plugging the well and getting ready to rig down. The Axis Energy Services employee was working from the platform operating the snubbing equipment. The casing from the well bore connected to the primary BOP broke causing the secondary BOP and the platform where the employee was working to fall…
Oct 3, 2018, Plains: Hospitalization · fractures · knee(s)
An employee had gone up a rig to unhook a block. The rig was clutched in, throwing the employee about 8 feet to the tuba line. His left knee struck a drum guard, which broke the kneecap. He was hospitalized.
The rules behind these citations
Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.
(2) Within twenty-four (24) hours after the in-patient hospitalization of one or more employees or an employee's amputation or an employee's loss of an eye, as a result of a work-related incident, you must report the in-patient hospitalization, amputation, or loss of an eye to OSHA.
(h) Maintenance and care of respirators. This paragraph requires the employer to provide for the cleaning and disinfecting, storage, inspection, and repair of respirators used by employees.
29 CFR 1910.134(h)(3)(iii)
(h) Maintenance and care of respirators. This paragraph requires the employer to provide for the cleaning and disinfecting, storage, inspection, and repair of respirators used by employees.
Other drilling oil and gas wells employers in Texas
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA enforcement data. A citation is OSHA's allegation; employers can contest it, and the status column shows where each item stands. Something wrong on this page? Tell us.
