Safety Alert
Inattentiveness Results in Injured Employees
Inattentiveness Results in Injured Employees
- IADC
- Safety Alert
- IADC Alert 12-32
- Human Factors
- Human factorsLine of fireSlips, trips and falls
- Drilling
- Rotating machinery
- Upstream oil and gas
Summary
An alert describes two injuries and a near miss while laying down drill pipe. After manual tongs slipped, the driller believed the connection had broken and engaged the rotary table. Swinging tongs struck one employee, another fell over a chain guard, and a third narrowly avoided a head strike.
Classifications: Human factors; human performance; ergonomics.
Classifications: Line of fire; struck-by hazards.
Classifications: Slips, trips and falls; same-level falls.
Classifications: Drilling; well drilling.
Classifications: Rotating machinery; rotating equipment.
Classifications: Upstream oil and gas; oil and gas extraction; upstream petroleum.
Summary
The alert highlights employee injuries associated with inattentiveness.
IADC Alert 12-32. Themes: human factors.