Safety Alerts

Safety Alerts

IADC distributes HSE Alerts to Members as they are received. All Alerts issued will be archived on this web site. We welcome your ideas for future Safety Alerts.

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15 January 2019

Alert 19-02 Foot Fractured Caught Between Shifting Risers

15 January 2019

Alert 19-01 Cement Unit Agitator Severs Fingers

19 April 2018

Alert 18-03 Small Bore Tubing Failure on BOP Control System

1 February 2018

Alert 18-02 Fatality – Struck By/Caught Between Pipe Handling Catwalk Machine

12 January 2018

Alert 18-01 Sheared Wireline Tool Results in Dropped Object

26 September 2017

Alert 17-06 Offshore Crane Operator Falls Through Dislodged Grating

12 July 2017

Alert 17-05 Crown Saver Device – Near Miss

12 July 2017

Alert 17-04 Drill Pipe Screen Lodging in Top Drive Results in Near Hit

12 July 2017

Alert 17-03 LTI – Hot Water Scald

12 July 2017

Alert 17-02 Attempted Robbery During Transport Results in Medical Attention

12 July 2017

Alert 17-01 Dropped Casing Results in Equipment Damage

11 November 2015

Alert 15-10 Fatality on Drill Floor

7 October 2015

Alert 15-09 Near Miss- Dropped Six Pound Sledge Hammer

7 October 2015

Alert 15-08 Disabled and Non-Functional Safety Devices Leads to Destruction of Derrick Board

24 July 2015

Alert 15-07 Poor Situation Awareness/Line of Fire Incident Results in OSHA Recordable

24 July 2015

Alert 15-06 Caught Between Winch Truck and Half Pit

24 July 2015

Alert 15-05 RWC – Smashed Finger on Tongs

1 June 2015

Alert 15-04 Finger Injury Leads to LTI

1 June 2015

Alert 15-03 Lifeboat Unintentionally Released Results in Two Fatalities

9 April 2015

Alert 15-02 Employee’s Finger Amputated

9 April 2015

Alert 15-01 Unintentional Unlatching of an Air Operated Elevator

24 November 2014

Alert 14 – 30 Casing Thread Protector Dropped During Hi-Line Operation

24 November 2014

Alert 14 – 29 Personnel Basket Failure – Serious Near Hit

22 October 2014

Alert 14 – 28 Fall from Equipment onto a Trailer Results in a Laceration

22 October 2014

Alert 14 – 27 Dropped Object: Hammer is Kicked from Work Basket

30 September 2014

Alert 14 – 26 Line-of-Fire Incident Results in Medical Treatment Case

30 September 2014

Alert 14 – 25 Shifting Load During Lifting Operation Results in Medical Treatment Case

21 August 2014

Alert 14 – 24 Three Instances of Uncontrolled Descent of the Traveling Block Assembly

21 August 2014

Alert 14 – 23 Improper Pulling of Rotary Table Bushing Results in Partial Finger Amputation

21 August 2014

Alert 14 – 22 Self-Retracting Lifeline (SRL) Anchor Post Failure Results in Near Miss