Safety Stand Down

Dropped Objects
Will You Be Under The Next One?
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AzBU Incident Trends

• Four recent incidents each had the potential to

be a DAFWC
• We might not be able to prevent the next
accident
– but you can avoid being the cause, and
– through awareness you might also avoid being the victim

• This year, a high rate of incidents have been:

”dropped objects”
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Potential Injury From Dropped

Objects

E
Mass = 0.5 kg
/k joule/
Dropped Object Outside Fatality
Drilling Office: Drops = 6 m
1.6
A bottle of sauce dropped to a lower

E=mgh
level when the wind knocked it off DAFWC
a food serving tray
0.2

Recordable

0.02

First Aid
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Potential Injury From Dropped

Objects
Dropped Object Stabbing Board
E
Mass = 260 kg /k joule/

Fatality
Drops = 6.5 m
1.6

E=mgh
DAFWC

0.2

Recordable

During pre-use checks Stabbing 0.02

Board failed and fell to the drill
floor First Aid
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Potential Injury From Dropped

Objects
Dropped Object Elevator Bell Guides

Mass = 0.5 kg
E
/k joule/

Fatality
Drops = 1 m
1.6

E=mgh
DAFWC

0.2

Elevator bell guide fell to Rig Recordable

Floor because bolts in the
0.02
elevator body were extremely
loose, threads in one hole
First Aid
were stripped
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Potential Injury From Dropped

Objects
Gauge Cable Parted and Dropped
Mass = 0.35 kg E
/k joule/

Fatality
Drops = 12 m
1.6

E=mgh
DAFWC

0.2

During wire line operations a Recordable

loose cable came to rest on the
BOP Deck 0.02

First Aid
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Potential Injury From Dropped

Objects
Derrick Dropped Object
E
Mass = 1 kg
/k joule/

Fatality
Drops = 25 m
1.6

E=mgh
DAFWC

0.2

The chain and pin fell to the Recordable

drill floor from monkey board
because a carabina clip was 0.02
bent into the open position
First Aid
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Potential Injury From Dropped

Objects
Dropped Object from Derrick
E
Mass = 0.10 kg
/k joule/

Fatality
Drops = 12 m
1.6

E=mgh
DAFWC

0.2

Upper racker head retaining Recordable

pin washer fell to floor
0.02

First Aid
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Potential Injury From Dropped

Objects

Mass = 20 kg E
/k joule/

Fatality
Drops = 7 m
1.6

E=mgh
DAFWC

0.2

The down wash of the helicopter

lifted up the center panel which Recordable
“flew” down to the pipe rack deck
0.02

First Aid
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Potential Injury From Dropped

Objects
Potential Dropped Objects

Mass = 3 kg E
/k joule/

Fatality
Drops = approx 3 m
1.6

E=mgh
DAFWC

0.2

A rack of 5 ½ tubing was used Recordable

while lifting, wooden rack
0.02
spacers was lying loose
First Aid
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Potential Injury From Dropped

Objects
Potential Dropped Objects
E
Mass = 2 kg /k joule/

Fatality

Drops = approx 5 m
1.6

E=mgh
DAFWC

0.2

Scrap metal found in casing Recordable

when rabbiting
0.02

First Aid
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Potential Injury From Dropped

Objects

Mass = 4 kg E
/k joule/

Fatality
Drops = approx 4 m
1.6

E=mgh
DAFWC

0.2
Employee attached ½
polypropylene rope to lift Recordable
fluid head from basket
0.02

First Aid
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Actions to Improve

• Dropped objects inspections should be

conducted routinely by all workers
• Equipment must be adequately maintained
• We must all:
– Remove or secure any object that might fall below
– Follow procedures for our tasks
– Avoid being in the line of fire for a dropped object
– Wear proper PPE to reduce chance of serious injury