Safety Alert
Safety Retracting Lifeline Blocks and Rotating Machinery
Safety Retracting Lifeline Blocks and Rotating Machinery
- IADC
- Safety Alert
- IADC Alert 06-02
- Machinery and EquipmentWorking at Height
- Entanglement
- Working at height
- Fall protection equipmentRotating machinery
- Upstream oil and gas
Summary
An alert describes a fatal incident involving a safety retracting lifeline and a rotating head above an annular blowout preventer. An employee crossed an elevated catwalk with the device between him and the lifeline anchor point, apparently allowing the line to become entangled.
Classifications: Entanglement; caught in machinery; drawn into machinery.
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.
Summary
A retracting lifeline became entangled with or obstructed by rotating machinery.
IADC Alert 06-02. Themes: machinery and equipment, working at height.