Safety Alert
Safety Alert 188 - Fire with Fatality and Injury
Safety Alert 188 - Fire with Fatality and Injury
- BSEE
- Safety Alert
- BSEE Safety Alert 188
- Hot Work and Fire
- FireHydrocarbon release
- Hot work
- Process pipework and pipelinesValve
- Energy and process isolationJob safety analysisOperating and work proceduresSimultaneous operations coordination
- Construction
Summary
A safety alert describes a fatal condensate fire during cutting of a platform drain line with an electric bandsaw, with another employee injured while assisting. It identifies valve opening, continued cutting and procedural and communication shortcomings, and recommends coordinated work assignments, written procedures, job safety analysis, isolation and contractor oversight.
Classifications: Fire; fire safety.
Classifications: Hydrocarbon release; hydrocarbon leak; oil and gas release.
Classifications: Hot work; welding and cutting.
Classifications: Process pipework and pipelines; process piping.
Classifications: Valve; valves.
Classifications: Energy and process isolation; isolation; energy isolation.
Classifications: Job safety analysis; JSA; job hazard analysis; JHA.
Classifications: Operating and work procedures.
Classifications: Simultaneous operations coordination; SIMOPS; simultaneous operations.
Classifications: Construction; construction industry.
BSEE Safety Alert 188. Themes: hot work and fire.