Safety Alert
Failure of Temporary Wireline Spool Stand Results in Caught Between Incident
Failure of Temporary Wireline Spool Stand Results in Caught Between Incident
- IADC
- Safety Alert
- IADC Alert 07-25
- Line of FireMachinery and Equipment
- Crushing and pinch pointsDropped objectsHand and finger injuriesMechanical failure
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Summary
A safety alert describes failure of a temporary cable spool support during cable installation to a derrick gin pole. The supporting pipe slipped off the rack, allowing the spool to fall and trap an employee’s finger between the pipe’s pad eye and the rack, causing partial amputation of the left little finger.
Classifications: Crushing and pinch points; crush hazards; pinch points.
Classifications: Dropped objects; falling objects; DROPS.
Classifications: Hand and finger injuries; finger injury; hand injury.
Classifications: Mechanical failure; equipment failure.
IADC Alert 07-25. Themes: line of fire, machinery and equipment.