Safety Alert
Installing Annular BOP Results in RWC
Installing Annular BOP Results in RWC
- IADC
- Safety Alert
- IADC Alert 08-21
- Lifting OperationsMachinery and Equipment
- Crushing and pinch pointsHand and finger injuries
- Lifting operations
- Blowout preventer
- Upstream oil and gas
Summary
An alert describes a finger injury during installation of an annular preventer onto a BOP stack. While the preventer hung from a crane, a worker attempted to start a nut on a stud. The annular shifted, trapping and pinching two fingers between the nut and its underside.
Classifications: Crushing and pinch points; crush hazards; pinch points.
Classifications: Hand and finger injuries; finger injury; hand injury.
Classifications: Lifting operations; load lifting; hoisting.
Classifications: Blowout preventer; BOP; blow-out preventer.
Classifications: Upstream oil and gas; oil and gas extraction; upstream petroleum.
Summary
The alert describes a restricted-work case during annular blowout-preventer installation.
IADC Alert 08-21. Themes: lifting operations, machinery and equipment.