Yep. Been down that road before. Nothing compares to a face full of drilling mud and cotton seed hulls. You tend to learn pretty quick about that stuff. LOL
The only thing worse that I have seen happen was on a workover rig. We were pulling the pump and the operator decided to use a wiping rubber, which is used when running the sand line to wipe the line, he crammed it in the stuffing box and opened the 2" line to "vent" the parrafin and oil. 2" plugged up and pressure built up. When it finally got to be too much, BOOM, it shot that rubber out, barely missing the rod wrenchers head. However he caught a blast of parrafin straight to the face. It filled his mouth, nose and under his eyelids with the stuff. He thought it blinded him. The rubber went straight up, hit the crown and shot out so far we were unable to find it. NOT COOL!!
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