Alert 02 – 34 Safety Lanyard Near Miss Incident
WHAT HAPPENED:
While tripping pipe in the hole one floorman went down to the BOP Stack to assemble the clamp on the rotating head. Before he came down from the stack, the driller rotated the rotary table to make up a connection. The floorman’s safety lanyard nearly became entangled in the rotating head. The floorman screamed out and the driller stopped the rotation.