Safety Alert
Fall From Monkey Board Results in a Fatality
Fall From Monkey Board Results in a Fatality
- IADC
- Safety Alert
- IADC Alert 05-04
- Working at Height
- Falls from height
- DrillingManual handlingWorking at height
- Upstream oil and gas
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Summary
This alert reports a fatal fall from a monkey board. An assistant driller climbed the derrick ladder to help raise a work platform that the derrickman could not lift fully upright. The rig was pulling out of the hole, with the platform requiring repositioning to accommodate remaining stands before running casing.
Classifications: Falls from height; fall from height.
Classifications: Drilling; well drilling.
Classifications: Manual handling; manual lifting.
Classifications: Working at height; work at height.
Classifications: Upstream oil and gas; oil and gas extraction; upstream petroleum.
IADC Alert 05-04. Themes: working at height.