Dropped object: Injury resulting from failure caused by corrosion
- Safety Flash
- Published on 25 January 2012
- Generated on 18 October 2025
- IMCA SF 01/12
- 1 minute read
The United States (US) Department of the Interior Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement Gulf of Mexico OCS Region (US BSEE) has published a safety flash regarding a dropped object injury resulting from the corrosion-based failure of the eline (electric line) used in well abandonment operations.
What happened?
A crewman who was guiding equipment into a well-bore, was struck on the foot and injured by a falling object. It was found after the incident that the eline was corroded and brittle with some strands broken.
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