Safety Alert
Safety Alert 225 - Fatality on Rig Caused by Snagged Barricade
Safety Alert 225 - Fatality on Rig Caused by Snagged Barricade
- BSEE
- Safety Alert
- BSEE Safety Alert 225
- Line of Fire
- Dropped objectsEntanglement
- DrillingLifting operationsRigging
- Lifting accessories
- Job safety analysisOperating and work proceduresPre-use checksSimultaneous operations coordination
- Upstream oil and gas
Summary
A rig spotter sustained fatal injuries when a barricade, snagged by an unshimmed shackle during air-hoist lifting of a welding crew, fell after disengaging. The alert recommends pre-use inspection of lifting assemblies, manufacturer-specified pad-eye shimming and detailed job safety analysis of simultaneous operations before planned man-riding.
Classifications: Dropped objects; falling objects; DROPS.
Classifications: Entanglement; caught in machinery; drawn into machinery.
Classifications: Drilling; well drilling.
Classifications: Lifting operations; load lifting; hoisting.
Classifications: Rigging; slinging.
Classifications: Lifting accessories; lifting gear; rigging gear.
Classifications: Job safety analysis; JSA; job hazard analysis; JHA.
Classifications: Operating and work procedures.
Classifications: Pre-use checks; pre-use inspection.
Classifications: Simultaneous operations coordination; SIMOPS; simultaneous operations.
Classifications: Upstream oil and gas; oil and gas extraction; upstream petroleum.
Summary
The alert concerns a fatality caused when a worker became caught by a barricade.
BSEE Safety Alert 225. Themes: line of fire.