Safety Flash
Serious injury during pipestalk rolling operation
Serious injury during pipestalk rolling operation
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 08/06
- Competence and TrainingControl of WorkLifting OperationsLine of Fire
- Crushing and pinch pointsEntanglement
- Lifting operations
- Operating and work proceduresRisk assessment
- Onshore facility
Summary
A worker at a spool base became entangled in a tag-line during pipe stalk rolling and was crushed between adjacent stalks, suffering serious injuries. The flash identifies inadequate procedures and risk assessments, failure to recognise the task as lifting, and reliance on custom and practice despite experienced personnel.
Classifications: Crushing and pinch points; crush hazards; pinch points.
Classifications: Entanglement; caught in machinery; drawn into machinery.
Classifications: Lifting operations; load lifting; hoisting.
Classifications: Operating and work procedures.
Classifications: Risk assessment; hazard assessment.
Classifications: Onshore facility; onshore plant.
Summary
A worker was crushed during pipe-stalk rolling after becoming entangled in a tag line during an inadequately controlled lifting activity.
IMCA SF 08/06. Themes: competence and training, control of work, lifting operations, line of fire.