By jrw159
Date 05-09-2010 14:26
Edited 05-09-2010 14:34
Actually I was running tongs on a pole rig coming out of the hole with a string of tubing on a well that had a plug on the bottom end. We got the plug out and had about 6 joints on the bottom of it. We got about 2 of those out when I started feeling funny and started to "snot up" and BAM I hit the ground right there on the well head before the collar on the third joint came out of the hole, tangled up in the slip chains used to keep the pipe slips in place over the casing. The operator chained down the brake handle and him and the other floor hand untangled me and drug me out. They had no masks to put on and were already in it, they were just on the upwind side.
Yes I was very lucky. I did not even have enough time (or experience that early on in the game, I was just a youngster) to know what was happening. Plus it was quick, two 30' joints on a pole rig goes really quick. Motor rev's up, rev's down and there is your collar, set your back ups and unscrew it, then lay it down, latch the elevators on and do it again. Literally can happen quicker than I can type it.
jrw159