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Dropped Objects
Update February 2016

Donald Dobson
Health & Safety Executive
Offshore Division

Dropped objects quarterly totals

2015 - All Incidents

Derrick & Well Ops Incidents

2015

Derrick & Well Ops Dropped Objects

2015

Derrick etc. Dropped Objects 2015

During rope access inspection of crown, spanner (0.3kg)

detached from lanyard & fell 64m to pipe deck

While running 10-3/4 casing Topdrive Casing Alignment

Tool (T-CAT) piston rod (4kg) detached & fell 15m to rig
floor. (Diller picked up too high putting weight of casing
string on single-joint elevators)

Derrick & Well Ops Dropped Objects

2016

Derrick & Well Ops Dropped

Objects 2016

Piece of angle iron (7.75kg) detached

from draw-works HVAC ducting & fell 20m
to doghouse roof & striking glancing blow
to IPs hard hat (IP received first aid for
stiff neck)

Crane & Lifting Operations 2015

Crane & Lifting Operations - 2015

Steel inspection hatch (3.6kg) fell 7.6m

from crane air intake

Crane & Lifting Operations 2016

Lifting Operations 2016

Lifting LMRP, 10ft piece of dunnage fell

7m from LMRP to deck

Moving gravel pack engine (15 Tonne),

crane main hoist wire failed; load
descended 6m to deck

During lift through hatch, steel section

(14kg) caught by tag line and fell 5.4m to
level below.

Other dropped objects 2015

Other Dropped Objects - 2015

Redundant vent pipe cowling (1.8kg) fell 10m to 15m to cellar deck in high winds

GPA warning beacon (20kg) parted from mounting and fell 2m to extent of cable.
Combination of high wind and incorrect bolt.

Unsecured spanner (1.2kg) fell through deck penetration 8m to grating below

During storm, scaffold board (14kg)worked loose & fell 16m to level below

Sheet steel insulation (2m x 0.25m) believed to have fallen 30m from exhaust stack
to deck

Tubular handrail (1kg) fell 11m to cellar deck (corroded welds)

Hammer head (3.2kg) fell 4.8m to scaffold platform (hammer shaft broke)
Fibreglass cover (7kg) to helideck fire hose box detached by wind to fall 6.8m to
walkway
Section of turbine exhaust (50kg) came adrift inn high wind & fell 3m to deck
After storm scaffold access platform under cellar deck found damaged with sections
missing or hanging 15m below

Other dropped objects 2016

Other Dropped Objects 2016

120o section of conductor buffer (20kg) found detached from deck,

landing on scaffolding 9m below

Hammering loose corrosion prior to cutting & removal, section of diesel

pipe-work (5kg) detached & fell 3m

Section of steel cladding (7kg) from 18 pipe, detached & fell 5.5m

During high winds, 9 scaffold boards (18kg each) supporting stairwell

cladding dislodged and fell between 3m & 11m

During high winds, section of helideck panels (180 kg) came free from
mounting & fell 13m to crane pedestal

Instrument tech dislodged scaffold pole (8.9kg) which fell through deck
penetration to deck below, having previously fallen 3m in to mech
workshop

Part of turret wind wall cladding (15.6kg) dislodged by high wind (74kt
gusting to 97kt); blown directly into sea.

Dropped Fittings by Age of

Installation 2013 to 2016
35
30
25
20
15
10
5
0

Dropped Fittings by Age of MoDU

or Flotel 2013 to 2016
4.5
4
3.5
3
2.5
2
1.5
1
0.5
0

Dropped Fittings by Age of

Platform or FPSO 2013 to 2016
35
30
25
20
15
10
5
0