A Minnesota man was struck in the head and killed in an oilfield accident Saturday at a Halliburton fracking site in western North Dakota, according to the Duluth News Tribune.
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The Occupational Health and Safety Administration will be conducting an investigation of the circumstances of the death of Mike Krajewski, 49, of Duluth at the hydraulic fracturing site not far from Watford City, N.D., the newspaper reported.
Krajewski’s task was to pump fluids at high pressure as part of the fracking process. Somehow when he was working Saturday around 3:30 p.m. a valve was turned in the wrong direction, causing a pipe to disconnect and then hit him in the head, the News Tribune reported.
Krajewski was an Air Force veteran and dad of three who only fairly recently became an oil worker, according to the newspaper. He had owned a painting business, but last year joined a friend who was working for Halliburton in North Dakota.