Another Oilfield Worker Killed On Patterson UTI Rig In Pennsylvania- 2 Deaths This Week!

Comment by Paul G Hesse on April 7, 2012 at 6:35am

It has always been my "OPINION" that safety has a price, we preach safety safety safety but, oh that costs too much and it will be ok!

 

Comment by Mark F Barnes on April 8, 2012 at 12:20am

Sad thing here, I know this rig and I know the two consultants on duty. The daylight Consultant is a fish outta water, he was a below average pusher in the gulf briefly, broke out as a company man up there in PA for Seneca in June of 2011. He's dangerous to say the least, he's a cram and ram, damn the torpedoes. His night hand is a total worm, worked briefly as a mud engineer and was terrible agt that, so they made him a trailer troll, because that's just what he is. He never leaves the shack, except to go to town to get a drink. Patterson 340 is a brand new rig that was brought up to PA last December. The hands are all new and it was an accident waiting to happen. Poor leadership from the top down. Seneca has NO safety support in PA whatsoever. They use the re-branded National Fuels safety manuel and their HSE manager up there has not one clue. He plays golf, and never answers his cell phone. They talk safety at Seneca, but that's as far as it goes. It's simply window dressing. I spent two years up there with their startup in the Marcellus, had six consultants working for them and we really tried to make a difference. They had a change in management in Pittsburg, and I pulled all of my resources out of there this January. This unfortunate death was inevitable, and sorry to say not surprising. Seneca has two Patterson rigs (340 & 337) both brand new rigs Christened last December and two Ensign rigs (125 & 169) I helped build and design all the Mods on 169 down in Houston, and Ensign sticks to a strict safety policy of their own, and do a spectacular job, especially 169 thanks to two veteran Rig Managers out of the Rockies. Most of there hands are all shipped out of the rockies and have been team mates under these two Rig Managers for several years. They have a low SSE % and very little turnover. Patterson is the exact opposite. There more green hats on location than the St. Patty's day parade in Boston. I didn't know this kid that was killed, I'm told he was a SSE as well.

Once again this is a fine example of poor leadership in all the key positions have led to another unfortunate death.   

Comment by mohd daud hassan Chalkie on April 8, 2012 at 4:54am

 It would be interesting if we can see the final incident and accident report. Whats the root cause and corrective measures to be implemented. I won't be surprise if we go to Google" How to write an accident report" we will see a similiarity. No Pun intended, but I sincerely hope that all these comments will be taken into considerations and they would seriously look into their commitment to prevent similar occurance.

There is no shorcuts to training, observations,audits and on going training in the field. Ironically, the supervisors; including the PIC on the rigs stop training once they get promoted. Thats where the root cause is. Poor leadership ; like Mark suggested.    

Comment by Geowhiz on April 8, 2012 at 6:45am

Patterson is a top-notch outfit.   Fact is that we lose 1-2 guys per year in the Jonah Field area.   The last one was an explosion at a gathering facility, before that, some guy fell into a tank and was overwhelmed by noxious condensate fumes.    Bottom line, the number one fact of safety is that more people die every year driving to and from work than they do on the job, by a factor of 10x.     But if you want to see some crap safety hazard rigs work on a Cyclone rig.    Last one I was on the sub was coated with about an inch of gooey oil, and some guy was welding in the choke house while the thing was drilling and after we had encountered gas.     The thing was one spark from disaster.

Always watch your a**.    

Comment by Fred PErrigan on April 8, 2012 at 8:26am

in my 42 years in the oilfeild i have seen lots of changes for the good . one person in a hurry is most of the time is the cause for short cuts

 

 

Comment by Muhammad H Haque on April 8, 2012 at 6:25pm

Very sad, a lost of life again.

I have seen that supervisors/ HSE guys  always preach to workers say No to any unsafe work but when someone dare to say No he is either out of work or at least not treated equal to one who bow his head for un safe work on company / supervisor  advise.  They never say “do unsafe work “ but always push people faster to minimize the time on job, result worker have to run over some safety precautions that can result in this type of accidents.

To make work faster and safer the complete commitment and constant supervision is require and is lacking at the moment in the industry. Companies want strict safety polices to fire workers from jobs when they desire but do not want to pay the price the safe work condition require.

Comment by Dustin Frazier on April 9, 2012 at 7:24pm

First off, my prayers are with his family & friends. I feel when they bring out new rigs they should pull experience from other rigs to make up the crews on the new one and replace the hands on the other rigs with new (experienced or not) ones, that way you don't have a bunch of new hands on one rig. I know you will have some experience on it they way there are doing it but how many of them have been out of it for years & are a little rusty, or they have the know how but don't give a crap, put them on the other rigs & out the guys you know about on the new one. Inexperience and laziness is killing our careers, & I say that from what I see personally, you can't run on these guys & make hands out of them anymore, hell you can't even call them worms. I had a hand walk off the other day and he went to the office and told them I fired him & same week I had a hand try to tell me he was gonna do what he wanted to do while he was at work & I put him in his place & I got an a** chewing for it and almost lost my pushing job over it. These walmart hands get hired & figure out the stroke they got & you can't do anything with them, we need more of our OLD SCHOOL guys back that know how to look out for one another because that's basically what it boils down too.

Comment by Juan Torres on April 9, 2012 at 9:42pm

It's been my experience in the years I'v spent in the field that the company you work for is only as safe as the company they are contracted with.I used to work for Ensign, They are the definition of safety. That was in Wy, however. In Colorado in the DJ Basin even Ensign does not know what the word safety means. The contractors in that field want a well drilled and they want it now. No matter what.

Comment by Brian Stiglitz on April 13, 2012 at 9:37am

I have done a ton of cement jobs off of Patterson 61, and the guys on that rig were very safety minded individuals, and good guys to work with.  My thoughts and prayers go out to the family, nobody should ever have to loose their life while at work. 

Comment by charlie coon on April 16, 2012 at 8:14pm

My thoughts and prayers to this mans family i never thought much about safety until i started working for my present company and it really opened my eyes when they gave me the power of STOP WORK AUTHORITY with no repercussions to me or others on location and gave us the ones in the line of fire to shut the job down if we did not think it was safe or if we did not know what we where doing to keep  others and i safe and in one pice.But the issue is that a man died and i hope he is with jesus and keeping wathch over every roughneck world wide.

 

 

Comment by Jorge Vizuet on July 21, 2012 at 9:35am

When you hire worms you get worms with expwrience killing worms

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