Safety Alert
Fall Protection Devices
Fall Protection Devices
- IADC
- Safety Alert
- IADC Alert 04-26
- Personal Protective EquipmentWorking at Height
- EntanglementFalls from height
- Working at height
- Fall protection equipment
- Upstream oil and gas
Summary
This alert describes several oil and gas incidents involving fall-protection equipment entangled with elevators, travelling blocks or top-drive rollers. Derrickmen were pulled down or lifted from working boards. In one incident, a wind-displaced lifeline broke while a belly-belt tail rope kept the derrickman secured.
Classifications: Entanglement; caught in machinery; drawn into machinery.
Classifications: Falls from height; fall from height.
Classifications: Working at height; work at height.
Classifications: Fall protection equipment; safety harness; fall arrest equipment.
Classifications: Upstream oil and gas; oil and gas extraction; upstream petroleum.
Summary
The oil and gas industry has recently experienced several incidents involving fall protection devices.
IADC Alert 04-26. Themes: personal protective equipment, working at height.