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Wildcat Construction: OSHA inspections and violations

Fortuna, North Dakota · Support Activities for Oil and Gas Operations · NAICS 213112

1inspections
2citation items
$1,989current penalties
Dec 27, 2018last inspection

OSHA has inspected Wildcat Construction once in North Dakota.

The inspection began on Dec 27, 2018 on a referral, in Fortuna.

That inspection ended with 2 citation items: 1 serious and 1 other-than-serious.

Penalties were first proposed at $3,978 and now stand at $1,989, 50% lower after settlements or reviews.

How that compares: the median penalty per cited inspection for mining and oil and gas employers since 2015 is $2,880, and Wildcat Construction averages $1,989 (1 cited inspection).

It reported 1 severe injury to OSHA since 2015.

Wildcat Construction: OSHA citation items per year, 2018 to 2018
Citation items per year, by inspection date.

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Inspection history

Inspection 343683009 OPENED DEC 27, 2018Closed

Referral · Partial · Safety · 8 employees at the site · Closed Jul 15, 2019

Well Site Eli 8-1e-163-102, Fortuna, ND 58844 · Support Activities for Oil and Gas Operations · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Incident on Dec 19, 2018: Employee is caught in fire after releasing flammable gasses

At 2:00 p.m. on December 19, 2018, an employee was opening a pressurized pipe and released flammable liquids and gasses that ignited. The employee sustained burns to his legs, hands, neck and face. The employee was hospitalized. hospitalized.

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 1
29 CFR 1910.147(c)(1) · Lockout/tagout
 Serious$3,978$1,989Jun 5, 2019Final
Citation 2, item 2
29 CFR 1910.1200(h)(1) · Hazard communication
 Other-than-serious$0$0Jun 5, 2019Final

Severe injury reports

Employers must report any work-related amputation, in-patient hospitalization or loss of an eye to OSHA within 24 hours. 1 report on file.

Dec 19, 2018, Fortuna: Hospitalization · heat (thermal) burns, unspecified · multiple body parts, n.e.c.

An employee was performing maintenance on a heater treater. When he opened the heater treater door an explosion occurred. The employee sustained hand, body, and face burns.

The rules behind these citations

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

29 CFR 1910.1200 · Hazard communication

29 CFR 1910.1200(h)(1)

(h) Employee information and training. (1) Employers shall provide employees with effective information and training on hazardous chemicals in their work area at the time of their initial assignment, and whenever a new chemical hazard the employees have not previously been trained about is introduced into their work area. Information and training may be designed to cover categories of hazards (e.g., flammability, carcinogenicity) or specific chemicals. Chemical-specific information must always be available through labels and safety data sheets.

29 CFR 1910.147 · Lockout/tagout

29 CFR 1910.147(c)(1)

(c) General—(1) Energy control program. The employer shall establish a program consisting of energy control procedures, employee training and periodic inspections to ensure that before any employee performs any servicing or maintenance on a machine or equipment where the unexpected energizing, start up or release of stored energy could occur and cause injury, the machine or equipment shall be isolated from the energy source, and rendered inoperative.

Other support activities for oil and gas operations employers in North Dakota

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