Safety Flash
Diver fatality: Underwater explosion
Diver fatality: Underwater explosion
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 10/03
- DivingExplosionHot Work and FireManagement of Change
- ExplosionLeadership and safety cultureRisk management
- Diving operationsHot work
- Job safety analysisManagement of changeOperating and work proceduresRisk assessment
- Upstream oil and gas
- Subsea
Summary
An experienced diver died in an underwater explosion during cutting for well stub removal. Findings included discrepancies between site conditions and customer drawings, generic procedures and a JSA focused on excavation. Company actions addressed information retrieval, project risk assessment, handovers, safety stand-down training and approval of significant procedural changes.
Classifications: Explosion; explosive atmospheres.
Classifications: Leadership and safety culture; safety culture; safety leadership.
Classifications: Risk management; risk evaluation.
Classifications: Diving operations; diving; commercial diving.
Classifications: Hot work; welding and cutting.
Classifications: Job safety analysis; JSA; job hazard analysis; JHA.
Classifications: Management of change; MOC; change management.
Classifications: Operating and work procedures.
Classifications: Risk assessment; hazard assessment.
Classifications: Upstream oil and gas; oil and gas extraction; upstream petroleum.
Classifications: Subsea; underwater worksite.
Summary
A diver died during underwater cutting after site conditions differed from drawings and generic procedures failed to address changing hazards.
IMCA SF 10/03. Themes: diving, explosion, hot work and fire, management of change.