Safety Alert
Improper Use of Hand Tools
Improper Use of Hand Tools
- IADC
- Safety Alert
- IADC Alert 98-11
- Hand and Finger InjuriesLine of Fire
- Well intervention
- Hand tools
- Upstream oil and gas
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Summary
This alert describes a workover crew running specialised shouldered production pipe under a specified torque requirement. An altered 48-inch pipe wrench served as backup to power tongs, with a snubbing line incorporating a hydraulic device for torque readings. The supplied excerpt does not describe an injury or outcome.
Classifications: Well intervention; workover; well servicing.
Classifications: Hand tools; hand-held tools; handheld tools.
Classifications: Upstream oil and gas; oil and gas extraction; upstream petroleum.
Summary
A workover rig crew was tripping in the hole with specialized shouldered production pipe.
IADC Alert 98-11. Themes: hand and finger injuries, line of fire.