Safety Alert
Improper Confined Space Entry Results in Multiple Fatalities
Improper Confined Space Entry Results in Multiple Fatalities
- IADC
- Safety Alert
- IADC Alert 14-18
- Confined SpaceControl of Work
- Confined space hazards
- Confined space entry
- Storage tanks
- Evacuation, escape and rescue
- Upstream oil and gas
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Summary
An employee became incapacitated after entering a tank containing a water–nitrogen mixture from a rigless coil tubing operation. Three colleagues entered in attempted rescue. The supervisor ordered drainage and further entry using a safety line. Three employees died; a fourth received first aid and hospital treatment.
Classifications: Confined space hazards; confined-space hazards.
Classifications: Confined space entry; tank entry; enclosed space entry.
Classifications: Storage tanks; atmospheric tanks.
Classifications: Evacuation, escape and rescue; EER; escape and rescue.
Classifications: Upstream oil and gas; oil and gas extraction; upstream petroleum.
IADC Alert 14-18. Themes: confined space, control of work.