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Permalink Reply by Checkmateking on May 7, 2009 at 7:21

Happens everyday, I saw a waitress slip and bust her head open last night.

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Permalink Reply by Randy on May 7, 2009 at 8:55

How many times a year does Calumet catch on fire?

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Permalink Reply by Checkmateking on May 7, 2009 at 9:00

Well I am glad your still around KB, god was with you that day.

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Permalink Reply by Sue on May 8, 2009 at 2:49

Drew Pierson • dpierson@gannett.com • May 8, 2009

An El Paso Corp. contract worker was hurt Thursday morning when he fell more than 30 feet while working on a man lift at a drilling rig on Cash Butler Road, off Jesse Latin Road in the Gloster area, authorities said.

Equipment fell on the worker, but it was unknown what type.

Emergency responders arrived shortly after 10 a.m. The man, who was working for Nabors Industries Ltd., a Houston- and Bermuda-based oil and natural gas drilling company, was flown to LSU Hospital in Shreveport. El Paso owns the well.

DeSoto sheriff's Sgt. John Cobb initially said El Paso and Nabors Industries instructed law enforcement not to release any information about the accident and to refer questions to the companies' corporate offices. Cobb later said El Paso is cooperating and will conduct an independent investigation.

Sheriff Rodney Arbuckle, who returned late in the day from out of town, provided a few more details. The injured worker was a 21-year-old white male. His name was not released.

"He was on a piece of equipment working on another piece of equipment when a truck moved and caused him to fall. He struck the ground; and it appears he may have some broken bones but no life-threatening injuries. ... Once we saw that it was an accident, we didn't do a whole lot more. No investigation was needed," Arbuckle said.

Call to Nabors were not returned.

This accident is the latest of several in this area in recent months connected with the oil and natural gas industry.

April 16: Wyoming resident Matthew Martin — a 29-year-old employee of The Wood Group, an oil field services company Chesapeake Energy Corp. contracted to help complete its wells — suffered a leg injury and some burns when a natural gas line ruptured while he was testing completion of a well on Williams Road, prompting the evacuation of residents within a half-mile radius of the site for about an hour.

Feb. 4: Jonathan Brazzel, 26, of Shreveport, a supervisor for L&S Testing Inc. in Shreveport, suffered a head injury and died when pressurized tubing broke during a shutdown procedure at a well leased by Chesapeake Energy in Stonewall.

Nov. 30: Jeremy Morris, 30, of Simsboro, was seriously injured when his clothing got tangled in a road-boring machine being used to install a 42-inch natural gas pipeline in north Webster. When completed across north Louisiana, the pipeline will carry natural gas extracted from the Haynesville Shale formation.

Oct. 30: Nathan Coburn, 23, of Grand Cane, died when his clothing became caught in a machine on a drilling rig in Webster. The Sabine native was working for Fran Oil Inc., which was drilling a well at Rodney Martin at Firetower roads in Shongaloo. The rig was not drilling into the Haynesville Shale. At the time, Webster Sheriff Gary Sexton speculated that the rig was drilling for oil because it was working at shallow depths.

Oct. 28: A CenterPoint Energy employee lost part of his arm in an equipment malfunction while he was working on a pipeline at the company's Dixie Interconnect gas transmission station on state Highway 3049 in Caddo. Shreveporter Kevin Whaley, 41, an operations and maintenance technician, was trying to redirect gas from one pipeline when the accident occurred.

Nov. 30: Jeremy Morris, 30, of Simsboro, was seriously injured when his clothing got tangled in a road-boring machine being used to install a 42-inch natural gas pipeline in north Webster. When completed across north Louisiana, the pipeline will carry natural gas extracted from the Haynesville Shale formation.


Oct. 30: Nathan Coburn, 23, of Grand Cane, died when his clothing became caught in a machine on a drilling rig in Webster. The Sabine native was working for Fran Oil Inc., which was drilling a well at Rodney Martin at Firetower roads in Shongaloo. The rig was not drilling into the Haynesville Shale. At the time, Webster Sheriff Gary Sexton speculated that the rig was drilling for oil because it was working at shallow depths.

Oct. 28: A CenterPoint Energy employee lost part of his arm in an equipment malfunction while he was working on a pipeline at the company's Dixie Interconnect gas transmission station on state Highway 3049 in Caddo. Shreveporter Kevin Whaley, 41, an operations and maintenance technician, was trying to redirect gas from one pipeline when the accident occurred.

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Permalink Reply by cocodrie man on May 8, 2009 at 3:01

So the drilling companies instruct law enforcement not to talk about the accident? How does that work? I wonder what Mr. Will (Nabors) would have to say about that?

cocodrieman

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Permalink Reply by Randy on May 8, 2009 at 4:30

When I read all these different incidents it made me think about the Great Wall. We too, are sacrificing in the name of advancement. Although maybe those who wanted the Great Wall built didn't see their losses as sacrifice.

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