Safety Alert
Safety Alert 251 - Collapse of Pipe Supporting Coil Tubing Causes Drowning
Safety Alert 251 - Collapse of Pipe Supporting Coil Tubing Causes Drowning
- BSEE
- Safety Alert
- BSEE Safety Alert 251
- Line of FireStructural and Asset Integrity
- DrowningStructural and asset integrity
- Well abandonment
- Blowout preventerFall protection equipment
- Contractor managementJob safety analysisOperational supervisionSafety communication
- Upstream oil and gas
- Offshore installation
Summary
During abandonment work on a hurricane-toppled caisson, production tubing supporting a BOP stack buckled. A technician attached to the stack by a fall protection harness was pulled into the ocean and drowned. The alert identifies planning shortcomings and recommends experienced review, consideration of contractor involvement, and communication across shifts.
Classifications: Drowning; man overboard; person overboard.
Classifications: Structural and asset integrity; asset integrity; structural integrity.
Classifications: Well abandonment; plug and abandonment; P&A.
Classifications: Blowout preventer; BOP; blow-out preventer.
Classifications: Fall protection equipment; safety harness; fall arrest equipment.
Classifications: Contractor management; contractor assurance.
Classifications: Job safety analysis; JSA; job hazard analysis; JHA.
Classifications: Operational supervision.
Classifications: Safety communication; toolbox talk; toolbox talks.
Classifications: Upstream oil and gas; oil and gas extraction; upstream petroleum.
Classifications: Offshore installation; offshore platform; offshore rig.
Summary
A supporting pipe collapsed during coil tubing work, causing a person to drown.
BSEE Safety Alert 251. Themes: line of fire, structural and asset integrity.