Safety Alert
Slips Knocked Over Resulting in LTI Foot Injury
Slips Knocked Over Resulting in LTI Foot Injury
- IADC
- Safety Alert
- IADC Alert 06-37
- Slips, Trips and Falls
- Dropped objectsLine of fire
- Well intervention
- Upstream oil and gas
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Summary
This alert describes a lost-time foot injury during removal of production tubing in single joints after well testing. A cable from the spider/single-joint elevators caught the slip handles, overturning the slips onto the worker’s upper right foot behind the boot’s steel toe cap, causing a fracture.
Classifications: Dropped objects; falling objects; DROPS.
Classifications: Line of fire; struck-by hazards.
Classifications: Well intervention; workover; well servicing.
Classifications: Upstream oil and gas; oil and gas extraction; upstream petroleum.
Summary
Overturned slips caused a foot injury resulting in lost time.
IADC Alert 06-37. Themes: slips, trips and falls.