Safety Alert
Rig Move – Caught Between Truck and Load
Rig Move – Caught Between Truck and Load
- IADC
- Safety Alert
- IADC Alert 11-13
- Line of FireVehicles and Driving
- Crushing and pinch points
- Vehicles and driving
- Safety communication
- Upstream oil and gas
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Summary
During a rig move, a floorman was trapped between a generator house skid and a reversing truck preparing to load it. Another driver shouted for the truck to stop, preventing more serious injury. The worker experienced chest pain and minor bruising; precautionary hospital X-rays were negative.
Classifications: Crushing and pinch points; crush hazards; pinch points.
Classifications: Vehicles and driving; driving; road transport.
Classifications: Safety communication; toolbox talk; toolbox talks.
Classifications: Upstream oil and gas; oil and gas extraction; upstream petroleum.
IADC Alert 11-13. Themes: line of fire, vehicles and driving.