OSHA Inspection: HALLIBURTON SERVICES

Issued

Nov 9, 1989

Abate by

Nov 20, 1989

Penalty

Initial $420 · Current $420

General-duty citation text

Section 5(a)(1) of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970: The
employer did not furnish employment and a place of employment which were
free from recognized hazards that were causing or likely to cause death
or serious physical harm to employees in that employees were exposed to:
The hazards of being struck by an unsecured pressurized flowline
containing pressure of approximately four thousand (4,000) p.s.i.,
located at Grace Drilling Company, rig number 75, on the E. Vela
lease number 1.
One feasible and acceptable abatement method, among others, to correct
the hazard is to secure the flowline to the ground.
Essential elements of this procedure would include:
1) Secure or anchor the flowline at the end of the flowline and at
intermediate intervals along the line each fifteen to twenty feet.
2) Where Chic-San swivel connections are used to make a turn in a
flowline, the flowline shall be anchored to the ground by means of
chains, steel stakes, or other adequate restraint on both ends of the
Chic-San swivel connection.
3) That employees shall not be permitted to step across and/or on a
pressurized flowline.