BOEM Safety Alerts

Safety Alerts are posted by the BOEM to inform the offshore oil and gas industry of the circumstances surrounding an accident or a near miss.

They also contain recommendations that should help prevent the recurrence of such an incident on the OCS.

Doc # Title Effective Date
258 Falling Debris Causes Injury Adobe Acrobat PDF 1/16/2008
259 Catastrophic Failures in Mooring Systems Possibly Put Floating Structures at Risk Adobe Acrobat PDF 1/16/2008
257 Three Crane Accidents Caused by Improper Rigging Adobe Acrobat PDF 1/10/2008
256 Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Adobe Acrobat PDF 1/2/2008
255 Compressor Explosion Adobe Acrobat PDF 11/24/2007
254 Falling Drill Pipe Causes Fatality Adobe Acrobat PDF 9/26/2007
253 Plug and Abandonment of Non-producing Wells and Facilities Adobe Acrobat PDF 8/1/2007
252 Retrieving Storm Packers Adobe Acrobat PDF 7/30/2007
251 Collapse of Pipe Supporting Coil Tubing Causes Drowning Adobe Acrobat PDF 7/11/2007
250 Plug and Abandonment Operations Lead to Fatality and Brief Loss of Well Control Adobe Acrobat PDF 6/12/2007
249 Training Adobe Acrobat PDF 2/13/2007
248 Stainless Steel Tubing-Related Fires Adobe Acrobat PDF 12/28/2006
247 Fatality on Storm-Damaged Platform Adobe Acrobat PDF 12/11/2006
245 Serious Fire Caused by Methanol Sprayed from Duct-Tape Repaired Hose Adobe Acrobat PDF 11/9/2006
244 Two Injured in Separate Incidents from Lack of Fall Protection and Improper Supervision (Amends # 233) Adobe Acrobat PDF 11/7/2006
243 Unplanned Riser Disconnect Results in Spill Adobe Acrobat PDF 9/6/2006
242 2006 Fatalities Adobe Acrobat PDF 8/23/2006
240 Conducting Activities In the Vicinity of Offshore Pipelines Adobe Acrobat PDF 6/5/2006
239 Casing Bleed-down into Plastic Drum Results in Fire on Platform Adobe Acrobat PDF 3/2/2006
238 Floorhand Crushed During a Through-Rotary Man-Riding Operation Adobe Acrobat PDF 3/1/2006