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Gulf of Mexico Region Injuries – 2000 (62 total) 02-Jan-2000 - Callon Petroleum Operating Company
Remarks: The injured person was attempting to raise the escape capsule using a manual wrench. The capsule started to fall and the injured person attempted to set the brake. The hand crank for the winch hit him in the head and his left hand. 10-Jan-2000 - Chevron Corporation
Remarks: The rig travel block struck a floorhand’s foot during an attempt to latch onto another stand of drill pipe while pulling a double stand of drill pipe out of the hole and attempting to guide the stand from the drill basket to the rocking board. The employee's heel/foot was injured, requiring surgery. 11-Jan-2000 - British-Borneo Exploration, Inc.
Remarks: : While the rig crew deployed the IWOCS (Installation and Workover Control System) umbilical lines in the moon pool area of the rig, the pad eye and cable for the umbilical reel broke free and subsequently injured three employees. The umbilical line was being lowered and clamps were being installed every 50 feet to clamp the hydraulic hoses and electric hoses to a stainless steel guide. Once the final depth was achieved, the crew lifted the umbilical assembly 35 feet to attach the last clamp located at the waterline and then lowered the assembly back down. One of the crew detected a split in the electric line coating. The crew was attempting to lift the assembly back up 5 feet to repair the electric line, when the assembly snagged on something, which overloaded the winch. Unable to determine why the assembly had hung up, the crew began pulling up the assembly again when the pad eye supporting the sheaves and cable broke free. The pad eye and cable fell about 30 feet toward the moon pool area, putting tension on the electric hose and pulling the electric hose reel forward, pinning the leg of one employee to the hand rail. The cable and electric hoses fell on two other employees. The three injured personnel were transported to the nearest hospital. 15-Jan-2000 - Chevron U.S.A., In
Remarks: A roustabout was injured while being lowered in a personnel basket from the platform to a motor vessel below. While being lowered, the basket caught on the edge of a toolbox, tilted, and the man fell to the boat deck. 11-Feb-2000 - Exxon Corporation
Remarks: While being moved by the starboard-side crane, a 12-inch overboard hose struck an individual. The rope that attached the hose to the crane hook broke and fell on a worker standing under the hose. The hose struck the worker’s left shoulder and arm. 13-Feb-2000 - Vastar Resources, Inc.
Remarks: While performing maintenance on the crane, an employee injured his right knee when he planted his foot on the crane platform deck (steel grating) and then turned, twisting his knee. Surgery was required to repair the knee. 04-Mar-2000 - Santa Fe Snyder Corporation
Remarks: The “Sundowner I” drill crew was testing the BOP System. An employee was sent into the derrick to grease the leaking Kelly swivel, where he remained after completing the task. The driller directed the employee to move back to the corner of the derrick. The rig crew proceeded to test the Kelly hose to 5,000 lbs. The Kelly hose held the 5,000 lbs. of pressure for several moments, and then the Kelly hose burst and parted about 12 inches from the hammer union on the Kelly hose, releasing test fluid. The test fluid struck the employee who had started to descend the derrick via a ladder. His safety harness kept him from falling out of the derrick. He managed to climb down out of the derrick by himself but
07-Mar-2000
- BP Amoco Corporation
Remarks: The deep fat fryer in the rig's kitchen caught on fire. It was extinguished immediately by the CO2 system located over the deep fat fryer and three 30-lb dry chemical units. Three people were treated for smoke inhalation and one person for a burn. 10-Mar-2000 - Chevron U.S.A., Inc.
Remarks: A derrickhand had both hands caught in the air hoist sheave during an operation to service the crown block. Three fingers on his left hand and two fingers on his right hand were amputated. The drill crew had pulled the drill string out of the hole and was greasing the crown and travel block when the accident occurred. The derrickhand greased the crown sheaves first and descended to the air hoist sheaves. The driller, seeing the derrickhand begin his descent, assumed he had completed his task and was coming down from the derrick. The driller instructed the floorhands to service the traveling block, not realizing that the derrickhand had stopped at the air hoist sheave to service it. The floorhands engaged the air hoist and attempted to lift the person in the riding belt into the derrick. A roustabout on the pipe rack heard the derrickhand in distress. The operation was stopped immediately and the drill crew rescued the derrickhand. The investigation showed (1) that the drill crew failed to perform a complete Job Safety Analysis before beginning the task and (2) that the drill crew failed to have a meeting on the rig floor and communicate their activities before starting to grease the crown and air hoist sheaves. 16-Mar-2000 - BP Amoco Corporation
Remarks: A crew member was hit in the head, left arm, and shoulder by a 2-inch drill line that had slipped through the primary clamp while being hoisted by the rig crane. The 2-inch cable clamp failed. It had not been tested before the slipping and cutting of the drill line began. It had last been load tested on March 3, 1999, and should have been re-certified on March 3, 2000. The incident occurred when the running end of the line reached an elevation about 67 feet above the motor shed and the cable pulled through the clamp and fell to the shed on the rig floor. As the cable fell, it struck a floorhand on the head, face, and upper body, lacerating his head and face, bruising his left upper arm, and fracturing his right shoulder blade.
21-Mar-2000
- LLECO Holdings, Inc.
Remarks: While moving a 25-barrel tank of calcium bromide on the deck of the vessel, the crane snapped at the pedestal and fell onto the vessel below. The crane operator was injured. Sea conditions at the time were 3 to 5 feet seas. The investigation findings showed that the crane operator had minimal experience and operated the crane outside of the designed limitations of the crane by picking up weight outside the crane’s safe load limitations. Also, the on-site supervisor failed to recognize hazards or ignored them. Underlying causes included personnel factors, capability, knowledge and skill, stress, improper motivation, job factors, organizational structure, management and supervision. It was recommended that MMS issue a safety alert to heighten awareness of API Specification 2C, specifically the current recommended ball ring design criteria and those manufactured under different design criteria. For details read OCS Report MMS 2001-010 located on our website at http://www.gomr.mms.gov/homepg/offshore/safety/acc_repo/01-010.pdf. 31-Mar-2000 - Stone Energy Corporation
Remarks: While equipment was being moved from the rig to a workboat, a boom cable parted allowing the boom to collapse onto the boat. The loose cable struck one employee and the other employee fell while trying to avoid the loose cable. 02-Apr-2000 - Chevron U.S.A., Inc.
Remarks: The injured person was in the derrick at the crown with a safety belt on. He was standing on the traveling block. An air hoist was being used to raise a tubing-testing cable and tools. The injured person observed a ¾-inch piece of rope that had become entangled with the cable as it was being raised to him. He leaned over to retrieve the rope, and his right hand was pulled into a sheave by the cable. Two of his fingers were amputated. 24-Apr-2000 - British-Borneo Exploration, Inc.
Remarks: While running casing, one of the floorhands attempted to perform a last minute function that was forgotten. He was attempting to put a bag on the spider (a piece of casing running equipment). Not knowing the floorhand had moved to his new location, the driller picked up a joint of casing. The casing swung pinning the floorhand between the casing and the spider. 03-May-2000 - OXY U.S.A., Inc.
Remarks: The artery of an employee’s left upper arm was penetrated by a flying piece of metal chipped from a bolt, which was being removed from the auxiliary winch of the crane. A hammer and center punch was being used at the time to remove the bolt. 04-May-2000 - Amoco Production Company
Remarks: A roustabout leaned against a handrail near the starboard leg of the rig. The handrail sheared off at the base causing him to fall through the leg well area from the main deck 91 feet to the water. He suffered minor bruising to his lower chest and several lacerations on arms and legs caused by the barnacle growth on jack-up legs. He returned to work the next day. 04-May-2000 - BP Amoco Corporation
Remarks: A sudden release of pressure caused a ½-inch hydraulic hose with a steel coupling on the end to buck violently and strike the face of the worker who was holding it. The roughneck was using the hose to function test the BOP. The hose was being filled with light pressure BOP fluid to purge the air from it. The hose was connected to a three-position valve input port that was connected to the downstream side of a regulator coming from the rig BOP accumulator room. The BOP accumulator maintains a pressure of about 5,000 psi. While one worker controlled the rate of purge, another worker held the free end of the hose until it was purged of air and then connected it to the BOP device. The handle of the three-position valve was pushed too far in the wrong direction, and it is believed that 1,600 psi was pumped into the hose inadvertently. An investigation determined that unsafe and unworkmanlike procedures were used during the BOP hose purging operation. 10-May-2000 - Vastar Resources Corporation
Remarks: An employee on the motor vessel was assisting in offloading equipment from the motor vessel onto the above platform when he twisted his right wrist. 15-May-2000 - BP Exploration & Oil, Inc.
Remarks: A bolt failure on the high-pressure mud pump released mud, striking an employee in the right ankle. He was treated for a dislocated ankle. 17-May-2000 - Coastal Oil & Gas Corporation
Remarks: An employee was mixing caustic in a drum. He filled half of the drum with water and mixed in two sacks of caustic. The drum boiled over, splashing the employee on the chest. The employee jumped back, fell, and slipped under the drum. Caustic spilled over most of his body. 20-May-2000 - El Paso Production Company
Remarks: The rig motor man was checking the fluid level in a radiator of a diesel engine. When he removed the radiator cap, the hot fluid sprayed him, and he fell off the brace he was standing on, 46 inches to the deck below. He injured one leg and received burns to his face and upper torso. The operator was issued a violation because the motorman was not provided an elevated work stand deck to safely perform equipment maintenance duties. Sight glasses were not installed on the radiators to determine the fluid levels. Also, there was no relief valve to relieve the pressure inside the radiator before removing the cap. 21-May-2000 - Ocean Energy, Inc.
Remarks: The rig drilling crew was running into the well with 5-inch drill pipe when the accident occurred. The crew picked up 5-inch drill pipe from the rig V-door with an air hoist and wire rope slings and was preparing to stab the joint of pipe into the mouse hole on the rig floor. A joint of drill pipe struck the top drive causing it to be released from the wire rope sling. The pipe struck a rig floorhand. Investigation findings showed that the drill crew did not use a secured fastening device to attach the joint of drill pipe to the air hoist cable before lifting operations began. The rig top drive was lowered before the drill pipe was securely stabbed and lowered into the mouse hole. The operator and contractor did not have properly established standards for the handling of drill string equipment during rig operations. 28-May-2000 - Callon Petroleum Operating Company
Remarks: The crane was picking up a personnel basket when the tag line got hung up between oil tanks. An employee reached over to pull the tag line free and injured his back. 03-Jun-2000 - Shell Offshore, Inc.
Remarks: An overshot assembly weighing 450 pounds fell from a suspended vertical position to a horizontal position on the drill floor, knocking a rig floor workman down and striking his left leg. The workman was sent to the hospital and was in good condition. Investigation findings showed that during the process of freeing a stuck electric line cable, the iron roughneck malfunctioned because of a partially inoperable hydraulic valve within the pipe spinner lifting system. 06-Jun-2000 - Enron Corp.
Remarks: A welder was seriously injured when he fell 15 to 20 feet from a scaffolding platform located inside a preload tank of the drilling rig. He was diagnosed with a broken clavicle and concussion. Investigation findings showed that the worker failed to secure his safety harness in accordance with the rig’s safety program. Furthermore, the company failed to assure that fall protection equipment was in use by all personnel in accordance with the regulations. A contributing factor was that the scaffold was not secured properly. The welding crew failed to communicate sufficiently that the scaffold had been moved and that the tie down that normally holds the scaffold secure had not been replaced. 18-Jun-2000 - Exxon Mobil Corporation
Remarks: A worker had gone into the derrick on a man rider winch to untangle elevators from the top drive service loop. As he was being raised to the monkey board, the shackle from his riding board system got hung up on the top drive. The winch continued to pull until the shackle came free, shooting the worker up into the derrick board racking fingers. The worker sustained injuries to the head, neck, abdomen, and ribs. 28-Jun-2000 - Dominion Exploration & Production, Inc.
Remarks: A worker suffered a compound fracture of his left ankle, pain in his lower back, hip and left shoulder, which he sustained from a fall. He was removing a deck plate, when he slipped, lost his balance, and fell through the beams and into the water, hitting a diagonal brace above the waterline on the way down. The worker was not using safety equipment. 28-Jun-2000 - Bellwether Exploration Company
Remarks: A worker was running casing when the stabbing board fell. The worker sustained facial fractures, a broken right wrist, and a laceration above his right eye. 01-Jul-2000 - El Paso Production Company
Remarks: An employee was changing out the chain on the pipe spinner, when his right thumb was smashed between the pipe spinner chain and the pumping sub that was inserted into the pipe spinners to test the repairs. His right thumb was fractured and lacerated. 02-Jul-2000 - Basin Exploration, Inc.
Remarks: A rig hand’s leg was fractured when a bundle of pipe shifted and a joint of drill pipe rolled onto the worker’s leg. He had just unwrapped the sling on the bundle of pipe and had turned to get a pry bar to roll the bundle into place when the bundle shifted.
11-Jul-2000 - J.M. Huber Corporation
Remarks: Three platform operators were slightly burned when a small flash fired occurred while a welder was cutting rusty bolts from the dump valve. All three workers were sent to the hospital and later released. Investigation findings showed that the welder was cutting on hydrocarbon handling equipment. The hydrocarbon handling lines and valves had not been thoroughly flushed and cleaned before beginning the cutting and welding process.
28-Jul-2000 - Shell
Deepwater Production, Inc.
Remarks: An employee suffered first and second degree burns to his face, hands, and arms when a small flash fire occurred in the Cetco weir tank where completion fluids were being treated in conjunction with flowing well A-10. The fire was immediately extinguished with no damage to the platform.
01-Aug-2000
- Shell Offshore, Inc.
Remarks: The motor vessel sustained major damage and the pilot’s legs were seriously injured as a result of a collision with a four-pile well jacket structure and jack-up drilling rig. The investigation findings showed that the wheelhouse of the motor vessel was left unattended allowing the vessel to stray off its charted course and collide with both structures.
22-Aug-2000
- Union Oil Company of California
Remarks: An employee was performing a lift using the platform crane. A roustabout was operating a fuel valve on the upper deck of the platform crane when the crane rotated and the roustabout was caught between the stairs and the handrail. He suffered fractures with injuries to his shoulder blade and two ribs. 24-Aug-2000 - BP Exploration & Oil, Inc.
Remarks: A derrickman was laying down marine riser on the rig floor. A joint had been disconnected and was being pulled out on the pipe skid with one end on the skate and one end in the elevators. Half of a flotation module fell from the riser joint to the pipe skid, breaking apart, and striking the derrickman on the right side, fracturing his lower right leg. 27-Aug-2000 - BP Exploration & Oil, Inc.
Remarks: An employee was working on the drill floor when an electrical connection box dropped 61 feet, striking him on the leg and right arm. The box weighed 61 pounds. 29-Aug-2000 - Union Oil Company of California
Remarks: A worker was injured while blowing down a well through the test separator. The vent line was not anchored and the nipple that was screwed into the top of the separator was not tightened fully. When the worker grabbed the handle, the valve went to full open and caused the line to spin, knocking the worker off the vessel, breaking both of his arms and lacerating his head. 03-Sep-2000 - Shell Offshore Inc.
Remarks: A worker was struck by a lift while he was working on the lower pipe rack helping place a piece of 13 5/8-inch casing that was being unloaded from a boat. The worker’s right arm was pinned between the accumulator deck and the casing. His right arm was broken and lacerated. 11-Sep-2000 - EOG Resources, Inc.
Remarks: A crane operator was injured while attempting to lift a joint of 24-inch caisson from the motor vessel. The crane cable unspooled when the 24-inch caisson was dropped on the deck of the boat. The shackle on the cable struck the crane operator in the head. 11-Sep-2000 - Stone Energy Corporation
Remarks: The employee was injured when the ladder he was climbing slipped and fell. 14-Sep-2000 - PANOCO, Inc.
Remarks: Two employees were changing halon bottles in the generator room, when the valve of the charged halon bottle broke off. The bottle ricocheted around the generator room and struck both men, breaking a leg of each man.
23-Sep-2000
- Anadarko Petroleum Corporation
Remarks: The rig electrician received an electrical shock from a 480-volt breaker and consequently sustained a sprained ankle after jumping off the skid where the electrical breaker was located. The blower motor associated with the draw works was not working so the electrician went to the breaker panel to try to energize it, at which time the breaker panel blew up. 28-Sep-2000 - W & T Offshore, Inc.
Remarks: An electrician was removing a fuse when it arced, burning his hand and wrist. The generator was offline but the line was still connected to DC power. 12-Oct-2000 - El Paso Production Company
Remarks: While two employees were moving four plate metal sheets, the load fell and hit one worker, breaking his ankle. 20-Oct-2000 - Newfield Exploration Company
Remarks: While getting a hose ready to take on diesel, the boat kicked on the diesel pump before the operators were ready. The hose pressured up and popped out. The hose struck a worker in the chest, causing him to swallow some diesel. The investigation findings showed that the boat diesel pump was turned on with improper hose connection and with the diesel hose valve closed. Pump pressure caused the hose to disengage from the improper connection. There should have been better communication between the boat and platform personnel. 24-Oct-2000 - Newfield Exploration Company
Remarks: While offloading personnel, a wave surge caused the boat to rise. At this time, an employee fell off the personnel basket, injuring his knee. 16-Nov-2000 - Apache Corporation
Remarks: A representative was installing a stripper rubber unit. While climbing down the BOPs, he put his hand inside the ram guard when someone was opening the rams. Two fingers on his left hand were smashed. 28-Nov-2000 - Chevron U.S.A., Inc.
Remarks: An employee’s right lower leg was pinned between a load being lifted and an I-beam. The injured employee was in the process of lifting a bundle of four sections of 9 5/8-inch casing from the north pipe rack to the boat. After he communicated with the crane operator via radio to begin the lift, he noticed that the load did not have a tag line. He attempted to contact the crane operator by radio to stop the lift but was unsuccessful in doing so. At this time, the injured employee was looking up at the crane main block. The load was approximately 2 feet above deck and it began to swing, pinning the employee’s right lower leg between the load and an I-beam. The employee was taken to the hospital via helicopter. 14-Dec-2000 - BP Amoco Corporation
Remarks: A rig floorhand was struck when tongs backlashed. The rig was tripping drill pipe and encountered a tight drill pipe tool joint connection while attempting to break the connection. The connection broke suddenly and the breakout tongs backlashed. The tongs swung around, striking the floorhand in the left side. 15-Dec-2000 - W & T Offshore, Inc.
Remarks: An employee’s wrist popped as he pushed on a pipe wrench to tighten a pipe nipple. He was transported to shore by boat the next day for treatment. 19-Dec-2000 - Chevron U.S.A., Inc.
Remarks: An employee was injured while attempting to hot bolt a flange on the B-21 well casing valve in order to install a check valve. The 1-inch tubing gas liftline blew apart at a 90 degree fitting on well B-21. | Privacy | Disclaimers | Accessibility | Topic Index | FOIA | Last Updated: 02/26/09, 04:17 PM |
