Safety Alert
Employee’s Arm Fractured While Using Pull Back Rope
Employee’s Arm Fractured While Using Pull Back Rope
- IADC
- Safety Alert
- IADC Alert 08-28
- Line of Fire
- Line of fire
- DrillingManual handling
- Upstream oil and gas
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Summary
This alert describes a derrick man’s severe arm fracture during tripping out of a hole. He wrapped a pull back rope around his arm to help pull a drill collar back, then lost control of the collar and could not release the rope.
Classifications: Line of fire; struck-by hazards.
Classifications: Drilling; well drilling.
Classifications: Manual handling; manual lifting.
Classifications: Upstream oil and gas; oil and gas extraction; upstream petroleum.
Summary
The crew was tripping out of the hole.
IADC Alert 08-28. Themes: line of fire.