Posted by proforma on January 18, 2012 | No Comments
This MODU life boat launch drill turned deadly when the MODU plunged 60 feet into the water, killing one and injuring six. This video appeared on the Drilling Ahead World Oilfield Network.
Tags:accident, fatality, offshore GOM, oilfield worker
Filed Under: Workplace Safety
January 4, 2012 | No Comments
Google identified the leading product recalls in 2011 in its Zeigeist report, which lists the most-searched topics. Among the many product recalls, Consumer Reports says the top ten include Harley-Davidson bike brake failures, Mazda fires precipitated by spider infestations, F-150 pickups with multiple problems, and contaminated turkeys.
December 9, 2011 | No Comments
Royal Dutch Shell and Noble have announced two ultra-deepwater drillships that they designed together and regard as truly innovative, equipped with a multi-purpose tower instead of the derrick. The new design is anticipated to reduce the number of workers required and increase safety because the need to handle pipe is reduced and dropped objects no longer pose such a threat. The ships, named [...]
November 21, 2011 | No Comments
Pinched fingers may not seem life threatening, but represent the kinds of injuries that are completely avoidable if the correct tools are made available. In this instance, an offshore maintenance worker injured his fingers while moving a 3 ft. by 3 ft. floor grating. The after action review found this had become a common practice at this [...]
November 21, 2011 | No Comments
Preliminary statistics seem to indicate that forklift fatalities declined in 2010, according to this report by the U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics. What safety professionals are wondering is if the decline is due to better safety enforcement, or fewer forklifts operating because of the poorer economy.
Safety managers are reporting increased focus on [...]
November 9, 2011 | No Comments
Do you spend a major portion of your day sitting? Think about it: at work, driving, eating, watching TV…might be worth counting how many hours per day you actually are sitting. A new study published in the journal Cancer Prevention Research and recently presented at the American Institute for Cancer Research Annual Research Conference shows [...]
November 9, 2011 | No Comments
With the Thanksgiving holiday fast approaching, it would be wise to remind employees of the dangers of home fires associated with holiday festivities. In fact, the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) says that in 2009, home cooking fires on Thanksgiving Day was three times the national average of fires per day .
Whether we believe we [...]
October 12, 2011 | No Comments
This gruesome incident report is circulating depicting the dangers associated with the new energy saving compact fluorescent light bulbs (CLFs). On February 10, 2011, this individual suffered severe injury to his foot following an attempt to remove an energy saving light bulb before it had cooled down. The heat caused him to drop the bulb [...]
September 27, 2011 | No Comments
You may recall the oil tanker Eagle Otome, which collided with barges on Jan. 23, 2010 in the canal near Port Arthur, Texas. The National Transportation Safety Board has announced that pilot fatigue, cracking jokes, reading newspapers and otherwise insufficient management of the tanker’s movements were factors causing the collision.
The fatigued pilot had operational [...]
