Alert 2 Mar 2021 Grinder disc fatal injury A contractor employee was modifying a road guardrail post using an angle grinder. While testing the grinder, a disc shattered and ejected fragments into his neck, resulting in a fatality.What Went Wrong?Contractor fabricated the guardrail after adopting an incorrect installation method.Contractor em… View Alert
Alert 1 Mar 2021 Air cylinder failure in lifeboat An air cylinder that was fitted within a Lifeboat structurally failed without any warning. No work had or was being conducted on or around the air cylinder. Three sub-contractors’ personnel that were in the vicinity of the Lifeboat area were impacted by the blast debris resulting in injuries. The th… View Alert
Learning Moment 3 Feb 2021 Under Pressure This Safety Moment is based on an incident which occurred in November 2019 in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea, where 2 people were seriously injured when a 3.4l nitrogen cylinder was being filled to 200bar.The intention of this presentation is to create awareness of the risk associated with ov… View Learning Moment
Alert 14 Jan 2021 Near Miss - Casing stud failure on water injection pump Three operators were conducting a routine start of a water injection pump. One Operator was opening/monitoring the discharge. While carrying out the task a stud (fastener) from the pump casing failed and was projected in the air. The system was operating at 120bar at the time. The stud landed on the… View Alert
Alert 9 Dec 2020 High personal H2S monitor reading during priming of gas compressor lube oil pump Prior to starting the gas compressor, the lube oil pump required to be primed by bleeding the pump via a vent valve. As the Operator was completing this task, he noticed a smell of gas from the vent followed by his H2S monitor alarming. He immediately closed the vent, moved away from the area and in… View Alert
Alert 30 Nov 2020 Small bore tubing connection failure When bringing a new well online a section of instrument tubing parted from an instrument block and bleed valve on a pressure transmitter allowing an uncontrolled release of >200kg of hydrocarbon gas at 200barg. The release did not ignite. The platform’s fixed fire and gas detection system initi… View Alert
Alert 17 Nov 2020 IP struck by water from fire monitor A power outage and low instrument air pressure set off an oscillating fire monitor, filling the deck drains. Technicians attempted to redirect the monitor – successful for a period of time. The monitor started oscillating in a non-standard arc, resulting in water impinging on a control cabinet. The … View Alert
Alert 17 Nov 2020 Collapsed winch drum The crane winch drum barrel boss was being replaced. The winch drum had been removed from the boom hoist winch and positioned on the deck. There was a discrepancy between the drawings and what the team found at site. Approximately 15mins after the barrel boss was removed, the drum collapsed. An ind… View Alert
Alert 17 Nov 2020 BSEE Alert – 399 Grating failures cause a fatality and a serious near miss During a planned maintenance and construction outage on a production platform on May 16, 2020, a contractor working on the casing deck inside of a hard-barricaded area (Figure 1) fell 30-40 feet to the deck below (Figure 2), resulting in death. On May 4, 2020, in a separate incident on another facil… View Alert
Alert 6 Nov 2020 BSEE Alert – 400: Trapped Pressure Ejects Rod From Chamber and Strikes Subsea Technician in the Face During blow-out preventer equipment pressure testing operations, a subsea technician sustained an injury while removing the Hands-Free Goose Neck (HFGN) locking cylinder assembly bolts. The technician was performing a work-around procedure when a sheared indicator rod ejected from the back side of t… View Alert
Alert 20 Oct 2020 Uncontrolled decent of crane boom The operation involved offloading 9 5/8” casing from a supply vessel to the rig’s cantilever deck. The crew was utilising a main deck crane, operating on a single line (“whip line”). Two bundles with three casing joints each were in the process of being lowered on top of the casing already stacked o… View Alert
Alert 20 Oct 2020 Crewman caught in the line of fire while using riser torque wrench During pulling of the Lower Marine Riser Package (LMRP) assembly, crewmen were working on the spider platform removing the eight riser flange bolts from the telescopic joint (“TJ”) when the incident occurred. The process involved the use of a hydraulically operated riser torque wrench (“wrench”) to … View Alert