Safety Alert
Near Miss – Oxygen Bottle Drops from Crane
Near Miss – Oxygen Bottle Drops from Crane
- IADC
- Safety Alert
- IADC Alert 01-31
- Crane and RiggingDropped Objects
- Dropped objects
- Lifting operations
- Gas cylinderValve
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Summary
This near-miss alert describes an oxygen cylinder becoming detached from an oxygen/acetylene assembly during a crane lift and falling seven feet. Its valve was damaged. The equipment was subsequently secured and the oxygen cylinder withdrawn from service; nobody was injured.
Classifications: Dropped objects; falling objects; DROPS.
Classifications: Lifting operations; load lifting; hoisting.
Classifications: Gas cylinder; compressed gas bottle; gas cylinders.
Classifications: Valve; valves.
Summary
An alert concerning an oxygen bottle falling from a crane.
IADC Alert 01-31. Themes: crane and rigging, dropped objects.