Safety Flash
Fall fatality during platform abandonment
Fall fatality during platform abandonment
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 07/12
- Line of FireWorking at Height
- Falls from heightLine of fire
- DecommissioningWell abandonmentWorking at height
- Upstream oil and gas
- Offshore installation
Summary
This safety flash summarises a BSEE report of a fatal incident during well plugging and abandonment and production-platform decommissioning. At night, a worker at the top of the well was dragged by a load into an exposed deck opening and fell to his death.
Classifications: Falls from height; fall from height.
Classifications: Line of fire; struck-by hazards.
Classifications: Decommissioning; facility dismantling.
Classifications: Well abandonment; plug and abandonment; P&A.
Classifications: Working at height; work at height.
Classifications: Upstream oil and gas; oil and gas extraction; upstream petroleum.
Classifications: Offshore installation; offshore platform; offshore rig.
Summary
A worker was dragged into an exposed well-access opening and fell during nighttime platform abandonment.
IMCA SF 07/12. Themes: line of fire, working at height.