Safety Alert
Rig Move Vehicle Incident
Rig Move Vehicle Incident
- IADC
- Safety Alert
- IADC Alert 08-29
- Vehicles and Driving
- Vehicles and driving
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Summary
A lowboy carrying a 60 ton (approximately 55 Mg) crane overturned while leaving a new location after a U-turn. Its left rear tyres sank into the uncompacted edge of a recently built-up access road. The truck and crane landed on their left sides; nobody was injured.
Classifications: Vehicles and driving; driving; road transport.
Summary
The alert concerns a vehicle incident during movement of a drilling rig.
IADC Alert 08-29. Themes: vehicles and driving.