{"id":30622,"date":"2018-08-09T12:09:13","date_gmt":"2018-08-09T17:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=30622"},"modified":"2018-09-11T14:40:54","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T19:40:54","slug":"osha-cites-and-fines-three-oil-and-gas-companies-after-deadly-rig-explosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2018\/08\/09\/osha-cites-and-fines-three-oil-and-gas-companies-after-deadly-rig-explosion\/","title":{"rendered":"OSHA cites and fines three oil and gas companies after deadly rig explosion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_30624\"  class=\"wp-caption module image aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-30624\" src=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2018\/08\/20180125-rig-fire-pics015_HR-1920x1280.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2018\/08\/20180125-rig-fire-pics015_HR-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2018\/08\/20180125-rig-fire-pics015_HR-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2018\/08\/20180125-rig-fire-pics015_HR-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2018\/08\/20180125-rig-fire-pics015_HR-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2018\/08\/20180125-rig-fire-pics015_HR-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2018\/08\/20180125-rig-fire-pics015_HR-620x413.jpg 620w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2018\/08\/20180125-rig-fire-pics015_HR-1620x1080.jpg 1620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Joe Wertz \/ StateImpact Oklahoma<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crews pulling in to remove drilling equipment damaged during a deadly explosion and fire at a natural gas well near Quinton, Okla.<\/p>\n<\/div><p>Federal authorities <a href=\"https:\/\/www.osha.gov\/news\/newsreleases\/region6\/07302018\">cited and fined<\/a> three oil and gas companies for exposing workers to dangerous hazards after a deadly explosion and fire on a drilling rig in January.<\/p><p>The U.S. Department of Labor&#8217;s Occupational Safety and Health Administration cited Crescent Consulting of Oklahoma City and Patterson-UTI of Houston for not maintaining proper controls while drilling a well.<\/p><p>The two companies and a third, Oklahoma City\u2019s Skyline Directional Drilling, were all cited for improperly using a heat lamp near the combustible opening of the well.<\/p><p>OSHA fined the companies a total of $118,643. The companies can challenge the agency\u2019s findings.\u00a0A spokesperson for Patterson-UTI said the company has filed a notice of contest with OSHA.<\/p><p>Crescent Consulting and Skyline Directional did not respond to requests for comment.<\/p><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2018\/01\/25\/authorities-investigating-oklahoma-rig-explosion-deadliest-u-s-drilling-accident-in-years\/\">explosion and fire<\/a> at the natural gas drilling site near Quinton, Okla., kept emergency crews at bay for hours and created a black plume that was visible for miles. Five workers were killed; one worker was hospitalized with burns and 16 others escaped uninjured.<\/p><p><em>Editors note: Story was updated with comment from Patterson-UTI.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal authorities cited and fined three oil and gas companies for exposing workers to dangerous hazards after a deadly explosion and fire on a drilling rig in January.The U.S. Department of Labor&#8217;s Occupational Safety and Health Administration cited Crescent Consulting of Oklahoma City and Patterson-UTI of Houston for not maintaining proper controls while drilling a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":30624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"page-noFeature.php","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[490],"tags":[238,392,759],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30622"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30622"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30641,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30622\/revisions\/30641"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}