Safety Alert
Fatality While Trying to Fill Up Casing
Fatality While Trying to Fill Up Casing
- IADC
- Safety Alert
- IADC Alert 08-06
- Line of FireMachinery and Equipment
- Line of firePressure systems
- DrillingFluid transfer
- HoseProcess pipework and pipelinesPumps
- Upstream oil and gas
Summary
A crew filling casing to test the shoe used a rubber hose supplied by a high-pressure mud pump. A low standpipe connection trapped lost circulation material. Following absent nozzle flow and a 2,000 PSI pressure spike, the hose kicked upwards, striking workers; one died and four sustained non-life-threatening injuries.
Classifications: Line of fire; struck-by hazards.
Classifications: Pressure systems; stored pressure; pressurised systems; pressurized systems.
Classifications: Drilling; well drilling.
Classifications: Fluid transfer; fluid loading; fluid offloading.
Classifications: Hose; flexible hose.
Classifications: Process pipework and pipelines; process piping.
Classifications: Pumps.
Classifications: Upstream oil and gas; oil and gas extraction; upstream petroleum.
IADC Alert 08-06. Themes: line of fire, machinery and equipment.