Alert 06 – 10 Standing on Casing Results in an LTI
WHAT HAPPENED:
IP was rolling casing from pipe rack towards cat walk. There were 2 rows of casing and he was rolling one from half empty top row while standing on bottom row. The fork lift was trying to move one casing joint from the top row to catwalk. The IP saw that the joint was slowly rolling towards him. Thinking that he might get hit, he jumped from a height of 1.06m (3.44 ft). While trying to break the jump, he landed on his right palm and strained his wrist and palm. X-ray was taken revealing wrist fracture of metatarsal bone.