Safety Flash
UK HSE: Incident during rig decommissioning leads to fatality
UK HSE: Incident during rig decommissioning leads to fatality
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 21/24
- Control of WorkLeadership and CultureStructural and Asset IntegrityWorking at Height
- Dropped objectsFalls from heightRisk management
- DecommissioningWorking at height
- Operating and work proceduresOperational supervisionRisk assessment
- Upstream oil and gas
Summary
An IMCA flash summarises HSE findings from gas-rig dismantling ashore. A skirt pile weighing more than 27 tonnes struck a mobile elevating work platform, throwing two workers to ground about 12 metres below. One died; another sustained life-changing injuries. Findings highlight inadequate planning, risk assessment and supervision, with no cutting plan or safe system of work.
Classifications: Dropped objects; falling objects; DROPS.
Classifications: Falls from height; fall from height.
Classifications: Risk management; risk evaluation.
Classifications: Decommissioning; facility dismantling.
Classifications: Working at height; work at height.
Classifications: Operating and work procedures.
Classifications: Operational supervision.
Classifications: Risk assessment; hazard assessment.
Classifications: Upstream oil and gas; oil and gas extraction; upstream petroleum.
Summary
UK HSE press release: incident whilst decommissioning rig.
IMCA SF 21/24. Themes: control of work, leadership and culture, structural and asset integrity, working at height.