108 – Pipe Spinner

3 April 2004

Alert 04 – 15 Making Up Bit into Bit Sub Results in High Potential Near Miss

Alert 04 – 15 Making Up Bit into Bit Sub Results in High Potential Near Miss WHAT HAPPENED: The floor crew was in process of making up
3 March 2004

Alert 04 – 11 Management of Change Tong Snub-Line Removal Results in an Injury

Alert 04 – 11 Management of Change Tong Snub-Line Removal Results in an Injury WHAT HAPPENED: The Drill crew was preparing to test BOP and the Driller
7 October 2003

Alert 03 – 41 Improper Hand Placement on Casing Tong Results in Finger Injury

Alert 03 – 41 Improper Hand Placement on Casing Tong Results in Finger Injury WHAT HAPPENED: While running 7” casing in the hole, the injured person (roustabout)
7 July 2003

Alert 03 – 28 Tong Incident Results in a Fatality

Alert 03 – 28 Tong Incident Results in a Fatality WHAT HAPPENED: The rig floor crew was making up drill pipe prior to running into the hole
7 April 2003

Alert 03 – 15 Spinning Out Pipe With Top Drive Results in Injuries

Alert 03 – 15 Spinning Out Pipe With Top Drive Results in Injuries WHAT HAPPENED: Recently two rig floor workers were injured while working on the rig
7 February 2003

Alert 03 – 08 Dropped Object – Joint of Heavy Weight Drill Pipe

Alert 03 – 08 Dropped Object – Joint of Heavy Weight Drill Pipe WHAT HAPPENED: An incident occurred recently which resulted in a lift sub backing out
5 September 2000

Alert 00 – 29 3rd Party Handling Tongs Results in Injury

Alert 00 – 29 3rd Party Handling Tongs Results in Injury WHAT HAPPENED: A third party employee attempted to take control from the drill crewmember by grabbing
6 December 1999

Alert 99 – 37 Casing Tong Support Spring Failure

Alert 99 – 37 Casing Tong Support Spring Failure WHAT HAPPENED: A joint of 7” (17.5 cm) casing was being made up. The casing tongs were initially
6 October 1999

Alert 99 – 31 High Pressure Release of Trapped Nitrogen

Alert 99 – 31 High Pressure Release of Trapped Nitrogen WHAT HAPPENED: Following the foam cementation of 20″ (50 cm) casing in deepwater from a semi-submersible rig,