Safety Alert
Struck-by Incident While Running Casing Results in Fatality
Struck-by Incident While Running Casing Results in Fatality
- IADC
- Safety Alert
- IADC Alert 13-25
- Line of Fire
- Line of fire
- Drilling
- Upstream oil and gas
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Summary
An alert describes a fatal incident during casing running. An employee backing out a cross-threaded casing joint was struck on the right side of his head by a casing power tong. His head then hit a top drive rail lifting eye, before he fell three feet to the rig floor.
Classifications: Line of fire; struck-by hazards.
Classifications: Drilling; well drilling.
Classifications: Upstream oil and gas; oil and gas extraction; upstream petroleum.
IADC Alert 13-25. Themes: line of fire.