Safety Flash
UK HSE: worker falls from height during oil platform decommissioning
UK HSE: worker falls from height during oil platform decommissioning
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 08/22
- Control of WorkStructural and Asset IntegrityWorking at Height
- CorrosionFalls from heightStructural and asset integrity
- DecommissioningWorking at height
- Risk assessment
- Upstream oil and gas
- Offshore installation
Summary
An IMCA safety flash describes a worker’s 15-metre fall during dismantling of the Brent Bravo platform. Corroded attachment bolts and an unrecognised separate platform affected structural integrity. The HSE investigation identified a missing full structural appraisal before demolition, with implications for risk assessment and the cutting method.
Classifications: Corrosion; corrosion damage.
Classifications: Falls from height; fall from height.
Classifications: Structural and asset integrity; asset integrity; structural integrity.
Classifications: Decommissioning; facility dismantling.
Classifications: Working at height; work at height.
Classifications: Risk assessment; hazard assessment.
Classifications: Upstream oil and gas; oil and gas extraction; upstream petroleum.
Classifications: Offshore installation; offshore platform; offshore rig.
Summary
The UK Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has prosecuted a civil engineering company after a worker suffered life threatening injuries after falling 15 metres when a platform he was working on unexpectedly collapsed.
IMCA SF 08/22. Themes: control of work, structural and asset integrity, working at height.