Safety Alert
Dropped Object From Snubbing Unit
Dropped Object From Snubbing Unit
- IADC
- Safety Alert
- IADC Alert 02-21
- Dropped Objects
- Dropped objects
- Well intervention
- Hose
- Upstream oil and gas
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Summary
An alert describes a serious near miss during snubbing-unit rig-up. A Kelly hose dragged against an escape-pod entry panel as the top drive was raised, dislodging the door. It fell some 60 feet, was slowed and deflected by hoses, and glanced off an employee’s hardhat and shoulder.
Classifications: Dropped objects; falling objects; DROPS.
Classifications: Well intervention; workover; well servicing.
Classifications: Hose; flexible hose.
Classifications: Upstream oil and gas; oil and gas extraction; upstream petroleum.
Summary
There was a recent serious near miss involving a dropped object.
IADC Alert 02-21. Themes: dropped objects.