Safety Alert
Full Body Harness Safety
Full Body Harness Safety
- IADC
- Safety Alert
- IADC Alert 98-25
- Personal Protective EquipmentWorking at Height
- Entanglement
- DrillingWorking at height
- Fall protection equipment
- Upstream oil and gas
Summary
During drill-pipe tripping, elevators passed close to the monkey board. As the derrickman latched them around the pipe, the two-inch front D-ring of his body harness caught on an elevator horn. He knocked the ring free before an accident occurred, illustrating a harness snagging hazard.
Classifications: Entanglement; caught in machinery; drawn into machinery.
Classifications: Drilling; well drilling.
Classifications: Working at height; work at height.
Classifications: Fall protection equipment; safety harness; fall arrest equipment.
Classifications: Upstream oil and gas; oil and gas extraction; upstream petroleum.
Summary
A rig crew was tripping drill pipe into the hole.
IADC Alert 98-25. Themes: personal protective equipment, working at height.