Safety Alert
Lanyard Caught in Kelly Results in a Fatality
Lanyard Caught in Kelly Results in a Fatality
- IADC
- Safety Alert
- IADC Alert 04-04
- Line of FireMachinery and Equipment
- Crushing and pinch pointsEntanglement
- DrillingWorking at height
- Fall protection equipmentRotating machinery
- Upstream oil and gas
Summary
This alert describes a fatal entanglement during surface-hole drilling. After securing an unsecured cable in the derrick, a motorman returned to the rig floor wearing a harness and six-foot rope lanyard. The lanyard wrapped around the Kelly bar rotating at 130 RPM, tightened and pulled him into the bushing.
Classifications: Crushing and pinch points; crush hazards; pinch points.
Classifications: Entanglement; caught in machinery; drawn into machinery.
Classifications: Drilling; well drilling.
Classifications: Working at height; work at height.
Classifications: Fall protection equipment; safety harness; fall arrest equipment.
Classifications: Rotating machinery; rotating equipment.
Classifications: Upstream oil and gas; oil and gas extraction; upstream petroleum.
IADC Alert 04-04. Themes: line of fire, machinery and equipment.