Safety Alert
Safety Alert 117 - Fatality While Testing Gas Turbine Meter
Safety Alert 117 - Fatality While Testing Gas Turbine Meter
- BSEE
- Safety Alert
- BSEE Safety Alert 117
- Machinery and Equipment
- Line of firePressure systems
- Inspection and maintenance
- Pressure vesselValve
- Energy and process isolation
- Upstream oil and gas
Summary
A production employee suffered fatal abdominal injuries when a gas turbine meter assembly blew off during preparations for a spin test. The alert reports an apparent failure to isolate and depressurise the test separator. The operator recommends upstream and downstream block valves with an intervening blowdown valve to simplify isolation and bleeding.
Classifications: Line of fire; struck-by hazards.
Classifications: Pressure systems; stored pressure; pressurised systems; pressurized systems.
Classifications: Inspection and maintenance; asset inspection; equipment maintenance.
Classifications: Pressure vessel; pressure vessels.
Classifications: Valve; valves.
Classifications: Energy and process isolation; isolation; energy isolation.
Classifications: Upstream oil and gas; oil and gas extraction; upstream petroleum.
BSEE Safety Alert 117. Themes: machinery and equipment.