OSHA Inspection: NOBLE DRILLING SERVICES, INC.

Issued

Oct 24, 2012

Abate by

Nov 15, 2012

Penalty

Initial $7,000 · Current $1,500 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1915.12(f):     Each employer whose employees work in confined and enclosed spaces or other dangerous atmospheres did not ensure all available information on the hazards, safety rules, and emergency procedures concerning those spaces and atmospheres were exchanged with any other employer whose employees may enter the same spaces.    In the water maker room on the vessel Noble Sam Noble, located on the floating dry dock of Keppel AmFELS, LLC, contract employees were working on the twenty-six bottle carbon dioxide fire suppression system.  The employer failed to notify all employees working in adjacent rooms or areas of potential hazards including but not limited to release of carbon dioxide, oxygen deficient atmosphere and asphyxiation.

Issued

Oct 24, 2012

Abate by

Nov 15, 2012

Penalty

Initial $7,000 · Current $0 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1915.89(l)(2)(ii):     The host employer did not instruct each contract employer to follow its lockout/tags-plus program and procedures:    In the water maker room on the vessel Noble Sam Noble, located on the floating dry dock of Keppel AmFELS, LLC, a contract employer assigned to conduct maintenance on the twenty-six bottle Carbon Dioxide fire suppression system was not informed of or instructed to use Noble Drilling Services' lockout/tags plus program and procedures.

Issued

Oct 24, 2012

Abate by

Nov 15, 2012

Penalty

Initial $7,000 · Current $1,500 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1915.89(l)(2)(i):     In a multi-employer worksite, the host employer did not inform each contract employer about the content of the host employer's lockout/tags-plus program and procedures:      In the water maker room on the vessel Noble Sam Noble, located on the floating dry dock of AmFELS, LLC, contract employees, when servicing a twenty-six bottle carbon dioxide fire suppression system, were not informed to lockout, secure and/or isolate the system prior to working on it which exposed employees to an asphyxiation hazard.

Issued

Oct 24, 2012

Abate by

Nov 15, 2012

Penalty

Initial $7,000 · Current $5,000 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1915.506(f):     Before conducting maintenance on a fixed extinguishing system, the employer did not ensure the system was physically isolated:    In the water maker room, on the vessel Noble Sam Noble, located on the floating dry dock of Keppel AmFELS, LLC, contract employees were assigned to service and test the twenty-six bottle carbon dioxide fire suppression system.  A means to isolate the system from the protected areas during the servicing operation was not provided or used.