Safety Alert
Safety Alert 207 - Rental Crane Bracing Failure Results in Fatality
Safety Alert 207 - Rental Crane Bracing Failure Results in Fatality
- BSEE
- Safety Alert
- BSEE Safety Alert 207
- Crane and RiggingStructural and Asset Integrity
- Line of fireMechanical failureStructural and asset integrity
- Lifting operations
- Crane
- Functional testingJob safety analysisOperating and work proceduresOperational supervision
- Construction
- Offshore installation
Summary
A rental crane detached from a platform while swinging an 18,000-lb flare boom, killing a crewmember in its path. The alert identifies deficient cantilevered bracing design, absent engineering calculations and installation procedures, and limitations of single-direction load testing. Recommendations address attachment engineering, written review procedures and formal job hazard analysis.
Classifications: Line of fire; struck-by hazards.
Classifications: Mechanical failure; equipment failure.
Classifications: Structural and asset integrity; asset integrity; structural integrity.
Classifications: Lifting operations; load lifting; hoisting.
Classifications: Crane; cranes.
Classifications: Functional testing; function test.
Classifications: Job safety analysis; JSA; job hazard analysis; JHA.
Classifications: Operating and work procedures.
Classifications: Operational supervision.
Classifications: Construction; construction industry.
Classifications: Offshore installation; offshore platform; offshore rig.
BSEE Safety Alert 207. Themes: crane and rigging, structural and asset integrity.