Safety Flash
Fatal diver incident due to uncontrolled differential pressure
Fatal diver incident due to uncontrolled differential pressure
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 20/16
- DivingIsolationPressure Systems
- Pressure systems
- Diving operations
- Evacuation, escape and rescue
- Subsea
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Summary
This flash describes a fatality during preparation to blind a rig pontoon’s torpedo pipe. Introducing air broke an undiscovered concrete plug above the upper valve, drawing the diver’s head and left arm into the pipe. It records standby-diver rescue, resuscitation and death in hospital two days later.
Classifications: Pressure systems; stored pressure; pressurised systems; pressurized systems.
Classifications: Diving operations; diving; commercial diving.
Classifications: Evacuation, escape and rescue; EER; escape and rescue.
Classifications: Subsea; underwater worksite.
Summary
A diver died after differential pressure sucked his head and arm into a pipe during subsea work.
IMCA SF 20/16. Themes: diving, isolation, pressure systems.