Wednesday, 19 December 2012

Worker killed at Oklahoma well site - Upstreamonline.com


Adelaide-based Sundance Energy Australia has reported a fatality during the drilling of a horizontal well at the company’s operations in the US state of Oklahoma.

The US-focused explorer told the Australian Securities Exchange on Wednesday that an accident occurred on 9 December while drilling the Leo Rother 16-4-11-1HW horizontal Woodford test well in Logan County.

The victim, identified as 51-year-old Rod Dotson of Enid, Oklahoma, was struck in the head when the counterweight rig block fell from the top of the crane, according to Logan County Sheriff's Office public information officer Richard Stevens.

 Worker killed at Oklahoma well site - Upstreamonline.com 

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