I only worked in the oilfied about a year after high school. I had about the lowest job you can have in the oilfield, testing pipe. Didn't take me long to realize I didn't want to do that the rest of my life. Went to college and became an accountant.
Not me, but the family I worked for had a bunch of family members on a drilling rig since they owned the lease. I was told they didn't have a blowout preventer as there's not much gas around here. They must have hit a pocket of gas because there was an explosion. A couple rig hands and several family members go burned pretty bad, including a kid.
A friend was riding the blocks up in a pulling unit tower instead of climbing up. Slipped off and fell. Told the insurance company he slipped when he was climbing so he could collect work comp.
Knew a female geologist who would strip down and change clothes in the dog house in front of the rig hands. Didn't bother her at all.
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