Safety Flash
UK HSE: Crane boom collapse
UK HSE: Crane boom collapse
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 05/24
- Crane and RiggingInspection and MaintenanceLeadership and CultureLifting Operations
- Dropped objectsLeadership and safety cultureMechanical failure
- Inspection and maintenanceLifting operations
- CraneHose
- Functional testing
- Upstream oil and gas
- Offshore installationVessel
Summary
This safety flash describes a crane boom collapse during preparations to recover a faulty submersible pump from an offshore rig. Debris struck a supply vessel and a snagged cement hose ruptured. The investigation identified an unchecked, incorrectly set limit switch, overridden joystick safety mechanisms and defective safety management. Nobody was injured.
Classifications: Dropped objects; falling objects; DROPS.
Classifications: Leadership and safety culture; safety culture; safety leadership.
Classifications: Mechanical failure; equipment failure.
Classifications: Inspection and maintenance; asset inspection; equipment maintenance.
Classifications: Lifting operations; load lifting; hoisting.
Classifications: Crane; cranes.
Classifications: Hose; flexible hose.
Classifications: Functional testing; function test.
Classifications: Upstream oil and gas; oil and gas extraction; upstream petroleum.
Classifications: Offshore installation; offshore platform; offshore rig.
Classifications: Vessel; aboard ship; onboard vessel.
Summary
The UK Health & Safety Executive (HSE) has fined an offshore drilling company after the catastrophic collapse of a crane boom.
IMCA SF 05/24. Themes: crane and rigging, inspection and maintenance, leadership and culture, lifting operations.