Confined Space Fatality – Worker Dies Inside Water Tank

OKLAHOMA CITY – An Oklahoma City employer’s failure to follow federal safety procedures left a 30-year-old worker suffering fatal asphyxiation as they tried to make repairs inside a water tank at a McClain County wellsite in September 2023, a federal investigation has found. Responding to the report of a fatality in Purcell, investigators with the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration determined the worker had entered a permit-required confined space to fix a leaking bulkhead valve in a production tank and then lost consciousness. Two co-workers entered the tank in […]