The following is a real-life example of what went wrong and what corrective measures resulted from incidents in the oil and gas industry. What happened: A 32-year-old derrickman died after he fell 65 feet (20 meters) when the drilling rig he was working on collapsed and fell to the ground. On the day of the incident, four workers were located on the rig floor (one on each guy wire). A driller was in the doghouse (control room) and a derrick man was on the derrick board guiding pipe out of a hole. The six-man crew had taken the last piece of drill pipe […]