Safety Alert
Fall from Scaffolding Results in Employee Injury
Fall from Scaffolding Results in Employee Injury
- IADC
- Safety Alert
- IADC Alert 08-05
- Working at Height
- Falls from heightMechanical failure
- Working at height
- Fall protection equipmentScaffold
- Upstream oil and gas
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Summary
An alert describes two employees climbing scaffold handrails to connect a mud bucket drain hose beneath a rig floor. Both secured lanyards to handrails. A scaffold section overturned, pulling one employee approximately 15 feet to the ground and causing serious injuries; the other avoided falling by grasping nearby air lines.
Classifications: Falls from height; fall from height.
Classifications: Mechanical failure; equipment failure.
Classifications: Working at height; work at height.
Classifications: Fall protection equipment; safety harness; fall arrest equipment.
Classifications: Scaffold; scaffolding.
Classifications: Upstream oil and gas; oil and gas extraction; upstream petroleum.
IADC Alert 08-05. Themes: working at height.