Safety Flash
Dropped object: Injury resulting from failure caused by corrosion
Dropped object: Injury resulting from failure caused by corrosion
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 01/12
- CorrosionDropped ObjectsInspection and Maintenance
- CorrosionDropped objectsMechanical failure
- Well abandonment
- Upstream oil and gas
Summary
This safety flash summarises a BSEE report of a dropped-object injury during well abandonment operations. A crewman guiding equipment into a wellbore suffered a foot injury. The electric line failed through corrosion and was subsequently found to be brittle, with some strands broken.
Classifications: Corrosion; corrosion damage.
Classifications: Dropped objects; falling objects; DROPS.
Classifications: Mechanical failure; equipment failure.
Classifications: Well abandonment; plug and abandonment; P&A.
Classifications: Upstream oil and gas; oil and gas extraction; upstream petroleum.
Summary
A corroded and brittle line failed while equipment was guided into a wellbore, causing a falling object to injure a crewman’s foot.
IMCA SF 01/12. Themes: corrosion, dropped objects, inspection and maintenance.