Safety Alert
Safety Alert 336 - Recurring Hand Injury Incidents on the OCS
Safety Alert 336 - Recurring Hand Injury Incidents on the OCS
- BSEE
- Safety Alert
- BSEE Safety Alert 336
- Hand and Finger Injuries
- Dropped objectsHand and finger injuries
- Lifting operations
- CranePersonal protective equipment
- Job safety analysisSafety communication
- Upstream oil and gas
- Offshore installation
Summary
BSEE describes a hand laceration during crane lifting of a rubbish sack, when a storage container’s frame parted and the container fell. Eight additional hand injury reports illustrate burns, cuts and blunt trauma. The alert recommends hazard-specific job safety analyses, risk reduction using the hierarchy of controls and appropriate hand protection.
Classifications: Dropped objects; falling objects; DROPS.
Classifications: Hand and finger injuries; finger injury; hand injury.
Classifications: Lifting operations; load lifting; hoisting.
Classifications: Crane; cranes.
Classifications: Personal protective equipment; PPE; personal protection equipment.
Classifications: Job safety analysis; JSA; job hazard analysis; JHA.
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
The alert addresses recurring hand injury incidents affecting offshore personnel.
BSEE Safety Alert 336. Themes: hand and finger injuries.