March 11, 2024
A two-person truck crew was loading a rig mat onto a Texas bed truck. An initial loading attempt was unsuccessful. During the second load attempt, the driver engaged the winch while the other crew member was still handling the winch line/deck chains.
The crew member’s fingers were trapped between the winch line and truck bed roller.
The injured crew member suffered serious injuries to their index and middle fingers.
01-2024-Safety-Alert-Fingers-Trapped-by-Winch-Line.pdf
July 26, 2023
A wireline crew was preparing to remove a tool assembly from a well with wireline equipment suspended overhead. The secondary winch line parted, causing the suspended equipment to fall, and the wellhead impact guard prevented the crew from moving outside the strike zone. A wireline operator’s forearm was struck resulting in a serious injury and hospitalization.
SA-02-2023-Dropped-Object-Seriously-Injures-Worker.pdf
February 24, 2023
During a visual inspection of a product storage tank, a trace of solidified product was identified, indicating a crack along the drip ring and the annular bottom plate. The tank specification called for the steel to have a minimum design metal temperature (MDMT) of -40 C but the material became brittle at lower temperatures (-15 C and below), resulting in a crack.
SA-01-2023-Storage-Tank-Crack.pdf
October 27, 2022
During drilling activities in a deep well, a significantly damaged I-beam located below the drilling rig crown block was identified when a melted piece of metal fell to the rig floor. The drill line was spooled incorrectly and had cut almost completely through the I-beam, which was located below the crown block and water table. This could have led to a serious incident.
SA-10-2022-Drill-Line-Cuts-I-Beam.pdf
August 5, 2022
A fatality occurred on July 7, 2022, shortly after 3 am at an oilsands shovel pad location. A team was lowering a pendant cable assembly from a crane when the pendant cable fell resulting in a fatal injury.
SA-09-2022-Mechanical-Lifting-Fatality.pdf
July 13, 2022
The driver of a tank truck was unloading fluid at a production facility. The driver was found unresponsive inside the pump box of their truck with their left arm sleeve entangled in the pump shaft. After an hour and 30 minutes of resuscitation efforts by workers and emergency response personnel, the worker was declared deceased from mechanical asphyxiation.
SA-08-2022-Worker-Fatality-by-Mechanical-Asphyxiation.pdf
May 26, 2022
A rig crew was in the process of rigging out. One worker verified that the plug (“male”) end of a 240-volt power cord was not connected and placed the cord alongside the pipe rack. Like a household power cord, the plug is the end that would normally be inserted into the electrical outlet, or panel, for power. Unbeknownst to these workers, this electrical panel had the opposite configuration, and the socket (female) end of the cord was still attached to the power panel.
SA-07-2022-Worker-Suffers-Electric-Shock.pdf
May 6, 2022
A well service crew was swabbing when the swab assembly reached the top of the well and parted the sand line. The rig manager was manually spooling the last six wraps of the sand line and became entangled in the parted line. The driller reacted, moving the throttle in the wrong direction and energized the line, which cinched on the rig manager’s leg. The rig manager was launched into the raising ram of the service rig and sustained a leg amputation and other serious injuries.
SA-06-2022-Worker-s-Leg-Amputated-by-Parted-Sand-Line.pdf
April 22, 2022
In response to a manufacturer’s notification, a midstream company conducted an exposure assessment of hexavalent chromium in a previously unidentified
location. This assessment identified the need for controls to prevent overexposure.
SA-05-2022-Hexavalent-Chromium-Exposure-Hazard.pdf