Safety Alert
Toppled Hydraulic Workover Unit Results in Fatality
Toppled Hydraulic Workover Unit Results in Fatality
- BSEE
- Safety Alert
- BSEE Safety Alert 439
- Machinery and EquipmentStructural and Asset Integrity
- DrowningFalls from heightMechanical failureStructural and asset integrity
- Well interventionWorking at height
- Fall protection equipment
- Competence and trainingJob safety analysisOperational supervisionSafety communication
- Upstream oil and gas
- Offshore installation
Summary
This preliminary alert describes a fatal hydraulic workover unit toppling on a Gulf of Mexico caisson. An elevated, harnessed contractor fell into the water with part of the unit. Initial observations identified a casing break; causes remained under investigation. Recommendations address structural capacity, support arrangements, fall protection design, supervision and task planning.
Classifications: Drowning; man overboard; person overboard.
Classifications: Falls from height; fall from height.
Classifications: Mechanical failure; equipment failure.
Classifications: Structural and asset integrity; asset integrity; structural integrity.
Classifications: Well intervention; workover; well servicing.
Classifications: Working at height; work at height.
Classifications: Fall protection equipment; safety harness; fall arrest equipment.
Classifications: Competence and training; competency assurance; safety training.
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.
BSEE Safety Alert 439. Themes: machinery and equipment, structural and asset integrity.