12.11.2019

Fatal work at height incident

We have learnt in the past couple of days of an incident that occurred on October 17th, in which a man, said to be in his 60s, died while another in his 40s was injured while while carryong out demolition work. The two men were reportedly working from a boom lift at the time.

We have struggled to confirm the details on this as no one has been prepared to discuss the incident, even though valuable lessons might be learnt from it.
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A view of the site

The information that we have been able to obtain, along with photographs purporting to have come from the scene, suggest that the two men were dismantling/decommissioning offshore rig bases at the outer harbour site, and were working from the platform of a 135ft Genie Z-135, when one of the elements being removed from the rig dropped onto the boom lift, striking its basket and causing the fatality. The man was declared dead at the scene. The machine itself was almost certainly not at fault. We must point out that while this information has been checked out through numerous reliable source we have not been able to confirm the details to our 100 percent satisfaction.
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The damaged platform

The Health and Safety Executive was informed of the incident and has launched an investigation.