Alert 11 Jun 2024 Various Dropped Objects - Near Miss Incidents Three dropped object incidents were reported on assets. Although no personnel were harmed, such dropped objects have the potential to cause serious harm: Incident #1: A team of scaffolders were tasked with erecting scaffolding within the wellheads area of an offshore installation. As the team were p… View Alert
Alert 11 Jun 2024 Loose Scaffold Board – Wrong Coupler The scaffolding team on a North Sea installation observed a loose scaffold board on a habitat roof. An intervention was made before any harm could be caused because of the work environment conditions, e.g. adverse weather. The Scaffolding Focal Point observed the incorrect single coupler for securi… View Alert
Alert 11 Jun 2024 Finger Fracture During Manual Handling The scaffolding crew were tasked with dismantling a long-term scaffold structure. The task required scaffolding components to be passed from one individual to another. After being passed down a 4-metre ladder beam, the Injured Party (IP) carried the beam to the storage area then went to position th… View Alert
Alert 11 Jun 2024 Dropped Impact Gun A team of scaffolders were engaged in activities to enable the destruct of long-term scaffolding. As part of the work scope, a support scaffold was required for an exhaust. As the team were engaged in the erection of the support structure, a member of the work party inadvertently knocked an impact g… View Alert
Alert 10 Jun 2024 Unsecured Load A supply vessel was travelling back to port after receiving operational equipment from an offshore platform. While travelling back to port numerous loud bangs were heard coming from the main deck. Upon further investigation, it was discovered that the doors to the container carrying the wheeled base… View Alert
Alert 10 Jun 2024 Seal Assembly Retrieval Incident A drill string was in the wellbore with a recovery tool to pull the 18¾” seal assembly, which seals between the top of the 9⅝” casing and the 13⅜” casing in the subsea wellhead. Historically, on occasion, there has been difficulty engaging the seal assembly with the recovery tool due to debris on th… View Alert
Alert 7 Jun 2024 Dropped Borescope to Sea A work party consisting of rope access technicians were executing a decommissioning work scope on a North Sea installation that required the verification of a cut line and lateral restraint on a conductor. Rope Access Technician (RAT) #1 radioed for the camera and borescope to be sent down to him to… View Alert
Alert 7 Jun 2024 Lifting Operations – Property Damage Three members of the deck crew on a North Sea installation were tasked to carry out routine lifting operations to re-locate a container. The wind speed at the time of the incident was approximately 38 – 39 knots. The push/pull sticks were used to control the load. As the lift progressed and the in… View Alert
Alert 3 Jun 2024 Leg injury while mooring During unmooring operations, a crew person got caught in the bight of a messenger line mooring rope and was injured. The incident occurred when a vessel was being prepared for departure. The worker was on the mooring deck, using a messenger line around the mooring rope to guide it onto a winch drum.… View Alert
Alert 3 Jun 2024 Stored energy - dislodged pin causes injury During disconnection of a structure, a securing pin became stuck and could not be removed by hand. A hydraulic jack was employed to eject the pin which resulted in the pin being released under load directly into someone’s face. A team of four persons were removing a structure. This involved the remo… View Alert
Alert 3 Jun 2024 Diver’s umbilical trapped during a pipeline flooding operation A saturation diver lost his breathing gas supply and had to go onto his emergency cylinder. The incident occurred on a moored 8-point construction barge during flooding operations near the pulling head of a newly laid pipeline. Water depth at the platform was 53 msw. The pulling head of the newly la… View Alert
Alert 3 Jun 2024 Vessel collided with platform A vessel was waiting on weather when it collided with an unmanned and unlit platform. The vessel had been holding on DP at a fairly constant distance from the platform for about four hours from midnight, but thereafter, started to move towards the platform. The vessel was being driven using “joystic… View Alert