R c drilling llc oil man struck by rigging chain dies

Abstract: At 1:30 p.m. on May 29, 2017, an employee was changing a seal on a power swivel. The rigging chain on the tong broke, striking the employee in the side of his head. The employee suffered a fractured skull and was killed. Keywords: Broken Chain, Fracture, Struck By [pdf]

Roughneck rigs a large oil drilling company

A roughneck is a person whose occupation is hard manual labor. The term applies across a number of industries, but is most commonly associated with the workers on a . The ideal of the hard-working, tough roughneck has been adopted by several sports teams who use the phrase as part of their name or logo. [pdf]

Drilling land rig

A drilling rig is an integrated system that , such as oil or water wells, or holes for and other construction purposes, into the earth's subsurface. Drilling rigs can be massive structures housing equipment used to drill , , or natural gas extraction wells, or they can be small enough to be moved manually by one person and such are called . Drilling rigs can s. [pdf]