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Three Workers Injured in a Workover Rig Tipover at a Continental Resources Well Site Near Watford City — What Your Family Needs to Know Before the Evidence Disappears If you or someone you love was on that rig floor when it went over — or if you got the phone call from McKenzie County at 11:44 a.m. on Tuesday, March 7 — you are reading this at one of the worst moments of your life. You may be in a hospital room. You may be staring at a workers’ compensation packet someone handed you at the clinic. You may have already been told by a company representative that “WSI covers this” and that is the end of it. It is not. Not even close. What happened at the Continental Resources OW Durham 6-2H1 well site on 36th Street NW, roughly four miles north of Watford City, is a workover rig tipover — one of the most violent events that can occur on a Bakken well pad. A workover rig’s mast or derrick stands dozens of feet in the air and weighs tens of thousands of pounds. When it goes over, it comes down with crushing force. Three workers were injured.…