Safety Flash
BSEE: Lack of training with hydraulic torque wrench contributes to fatality
BSEE: Lack of training with hydraulic torque wrench contributes to fatality
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 16/23
- Competence and TrainingLine of FireMachinery and Equipment
- Line of fire
- Hand tools
- Competence and trainingJob safety analysisOperational supervisionStop-work authority
- Upstream oil and gas
- Vessel
Summary
A drillship crew member died after a stuck hydraulic torque wrench was freed under applied tension and shot upwards during riser disconnection. The flash identifies unrecognised tool limitations, inadequate training and communication, and supervisory shortcomings. Actions address job safety analysis, formal training, stop-work intervention and tool compatibility.
Classifications: Line of fire; struck-by hazards.
Classifications: Hand tools; hand-held tools; handheld tools.
Classifications: Competence and training; competency assurance; safety training.
Classifications: Job safety analysis; JSA; job hazard analysis; JHA.
Classifications: Operational supervision.
Classifications: Stop-work authority; stop work; stop-work intervention.
Classifications: Upstream oil and gas; oil and gas extraction; upstream petroleum.
Classifications: Vessel; aboard ship; onboard vessel.
Summary
The United States Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) has published Safety Alert 459 relating to a fatality which occurred on a drillship in the Gulf of Mexico.
IMCA SF 16/23. Themes: competence and training, line of fire, machinery and equipment.