ENSIGN UNITED STATES DRILLING
FEE LEASE, MCKITTRICK, CA 93251 · NAICS 211111
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Inspection records
Jan 9, 2009#312430523Jan 9, 2009Unprogrammed Related (G) · Partial scope, Safety#312430523$00 viol.0 violations$0 in penalties
Inspection #312430523
Dates
- Opened
- Jan 9, 2009
- Closing Conference Date
- Feb 3, 2009
- Closed
- Feb 3, 2009
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- No
- Number of Employees
- 75
- Related Activity
- 1 accident
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 0
- Initial Penalties
- $0
- Penalties on Record
- $0
- Site Address
- Sec. 7, Twnship 29s, Range 22e, Well #99-7, Mckittrick, CA 93251
- Industry
- 213111 Drilling Oil and Gas Wells
Unprogrammed Related Inspection: This inspection record is categorized as an unprogrammed related inspection in the DOL OSHA enforcement data. The public DOL category label is preserved here without adding extra interpretation beyond the government label.
Jul 14, 2008#310202767Jul 14, 2008Complaint (B) · No Inspection scope, Health#310202767$00 viol.0 violations$0 in penalties
Inspection #310202767
Dates
- Opened
- Jul 14, 2008
- Closing Conference Date
- Not recorded
- Closed
- Jul 14, 2008
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- Not recorded
- Number of Employees
- Not recorded
- Related Activity
- 1 complaint
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 0
- Initial Penalties
- $0
- Penalties on Record
- $0
- Site Address
- Fee Lease, Mckittrick, CA 93251
- Industry
- 211111
Complaint Inspection: This inspection record is categorized as a complaint inspection in the DOL OSHA enforcement data. OSHA can open complaint-driven inspections after receiving safety or health complaints from workers or their representatives.
May 17, 2008#310201561May 17, 2008FatalityAccident (A) · Partial scope, HealthFatality#310201561$5,4001 viol.1 violation$5,400 in penalties
Inspection #310201561
Dates
- Opened
- May 17, 2008
- Closing Conference Date
- Oct 8, 2008
- Contested
- Nov 19, 2008
- Final Order
- Jul 23, 2009
- Closed
- Oct 28, 2009
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- No
- Number of Employees
- 400
- Related Activity
- 1 accident
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 1
- Violation Types
- 1 serious
- Initial Penalties
- $5,400
- Penalties on Record
- $5,400
- Site Address
- 422' Nly Along W. Sect Line 616' Ely, Mckittrick, CA 93251
- Industry
- 211111
Accident Inspection: This inspection record is categorized as an accident inspection in the U.S. Department of Labor OSHA enforcement data. Employers must report work-related fatalities within 8 hours, and work-related inpatient hospitalizations, amputations, or losses of an eye within 24 hours. An accident-related inspection does not by itself determine fault.
Incident Investigation Summaries
Incident investigation summaries linked to this inspection through OSHA's accident and injury enforcement data. These summaries describe the reported incident. The enforcement outcome for the linked inspection is in the inspection details above.
Employee dies of apparent heat-related illness
Violations
Violation list (1 of 1 shown)
| Citation | Standard | Type | Instances | Exposed | Initial | Current | Abatement | Contest | Final Order |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01001 | 3395 Heat Illness Prevention in Outdoor Places of Employment OSHA citation code: 3395 E01 | Serious | 1 | 1 | $5,400 | $5,400 | Oct 18, 2008 | Nov 19, 2008 | Jul 23, 2009 |
Penalty amounts may differ from final amounts after settlement or judicial review. How to read these records
About these records
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OSHA's public enforcement data does not publish a "guilty" or "not guilty" field for inspections. The closest outcome fields available are the citation counts, penalty amounts, contest dates, final-order dates, and the inspection close date shown on this page. How to interpret these status fields. How initial and current penalties are recorded.
OSHA may publish multiple citation rows in the same inspection with the same standard and penalty fields. Separate rows can still differ in OSHA metadata such as citation identifier, recorded instance count, exposed workers, or gravity value. Contest and Final Order columns show citation-level dates from OSHA's enforcement record. A dash means OSHA's record does not currently show that activity for the citation.
Source: U.S. Department of Labor OSHA incident investigation data (`osha_accident` + `osha_accident_injury`). Linked via `rel_insp_nr` to the inspection activity number (exact government key). Injury, body part, source and event values are OSHA's own codes. OSHA states that these fields are not coded according to the requirements under the Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System (OIICS). Only the values present in the OSHA record are listed; an incident with no value that resolves in OSHA's code table shows "Injury details not recorded". Where a record covers several people, each field lists every value recorded across them.
Understanding These Penalties
The maximum penalty for a serious violation in 2025 is $16,550 per violation. For willful violations, the range is $11,823 to $165,514. The current penalty column shows the latest amount on record in OSHA's database for each citation. When the current penalty differs from the initial penalty, OSHA's records show that the amount changed during the enforcement process, but this page does not determine the specific reason for each change. Penalty amounts are set by OSHA and adjusted annually for inflation.
3 inspections, 2008 to 2009. Each row is one inspection; point at or tap a row for its dates and totals.
Source: DOL OSHA enforcement data (inspections and violations), linked via activity_nr (exact government key).
Penalty changes: Amounts shown reflect what OSHA's enforcement record publishes. The reason for any change is not stated unless OSHA's record explicitly says so.
Short cases: When a case closed soon after it opened, the closed marker is drawn slightly to the right so both markers stay visible. Each row's card shows the exact dates.
Standards cited
Industry comparison
Oil and Gas Extraction, 1,469 employers with OSHA inspections. Arithmetic from DOL records.