Safety Alert
Fatal Incident – Man Lost Overboard
Fatal Incident – Man Lost Overboard
- IADC
- Safety Alert
- IADC Alert 02-12
- Evacuation, Escape and RescueMarine Operations
- DrowningFalls from heightLine of fireSlips, trips and falls
- Manual handling
- Hand tools
- Upstream oil and gas
- Marine waters
Summary
This alert describes a fatal man-overboard incident during relocation of a diverter housing on a stump cart. A worker was struck by a steel tube tossed to him for setting a load binder, lost his footing and subsequently rolled off the cart into the sea. Search and rescue was unsuccessful.
Classifications: Drowning; man overboard; person overboard.
Classifications: Falls from height; fall from height.
Classifications: Line of fire; struck-by hazards.
Classifications: Slips, trips and falls; same-level falls.
Classifications: Manual handling; manual lifting.
Classifications: Hand tools; hand-held tools; handheld tools.
Classifications: Upstream oil and gas; oil and gas extraction; upstream petroleum.
Classifications: Marine waters.
Summary
The alert concerns a fatality involving a person lost overboard.
IADC Alert 02-12. Themes: evacuation, escape and rescue, marine operations.