Safety Alert
Sand Line Flagging Operation Results in Fatality
Sand Line Flagging Operation Results in Fatality
- IADC
- Safety Alert
- IADC Alert 11-01
- Line of Fire
- Entanglement
- Rotating machinery
- Upstream oil and gas
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Summary
A completions rig crew member died through entanglement during sand-line flagging. After the third set of flags was fitted, the operator reached into the drum area to assist with removing a pipe wrench. His stomach contacted the clutch lever, engaging the drum, which turned several revolutions.
Classifications: Entanglement; caught in machinery; drawn into machinery.
Classifications: Rotating machinery; rotating equipment.
Classifications: Upstream oil and gas; oil and gas extraction; upstream petroleum.
Summary
This alert concerns a fatal event during sand line flagging.
IADC Alert 11-01. Themes: line of fire.