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Other Incidents - Statistics and Summaries 2007-2010

Effective July 17, 2006, MMS revised the regulations for incident reporting incidents other than fatalities, injuries, losses of well control, fires/explosions, collisions, and spills. Currently the following other incidents must be reported:

bullet All incidents involving structural damage to an OCS facility. “Structural damage” means damage severe enough so that operations on the facility cannot continue until repairs are made.
 
bullet All incidents involving crane or personnel/material handling operations.
 
bullet All incidents that damage or disable safety systems or equipment (including firefighting systems).
 
bullet All gas releases that initiate equipment or process shutdown.
 
bullet All incidents that require operations personnel on the facility to muster for evacuation for reasons not related to weather or drills;
 
bullet All other incidents, not listed above that result in property or equipment damage greater than $25,000.
 
OCS Other Incidents: 2006-2010
OTHER INCIDENTS *** 2006 2007

2008

2009YTD 2010
GOM PAC GOM PAC GOM PAC GOM PAC GOM PAC
   Crane 115 14 127 6 164 10 65 9    
   Other Lifting Device 18 2 25 3 26 1 5 0    
   Gas Release 8 1 10 3 17 4 5 1    
   Structural Damage 5 0 6 0 13 0 2 0    
   Damaged Disabled Safety System 3 1 3 0 1 0 2 0    
   H2S Release 2 2 1 5 3 7 1 2    
   Incident (with > $25,000 property damage) # 1 0 10 0 3 0 0 0    
   Muster for Evacuation 24 4 14 16 36 11 11 0    
   Pipeline * 13 0 6 0 11 0 2 0    
   Miscellaneous Other @ 24 2 63 2 5 4 1 1    
REGIONAL OTHER INCIDENT TOTALS FOR THE YEAR 213 26 265 35 279 37 94 13 0 0
COMBINED OTHER INCIDENT TOTALS FOR THE YEAR 239 300 316 107 0

YTD  = Year to date

NOTE: Incidents may be counted in more than one category. For example, an H2S Release might also involve a Muster for Evacuation and would be counted in both categories.

***Effective July 17, 2006, MMS revised the regulations for Incident Reporting. Previous to that date, most incidents in this "Other" category were not specifically required to be reported.

# Effective July 17, 2006, MMS required that incidents resulting in  > $25,000 property/equipment damage be reported. The incidents in this category shown on this chart include only those incidents that do not fall into another reportable category.

* The incident reporting regulations do not specifically require reporting of pipeline incidents. However, most of them are reported because they are associated with another reportable incident type, such as a spill or a collision.

@These are incidents that are reported to MMS, that do not fall into a specific category.

SOURCE:  TIMS Database as of 05-May-2009


Blue Bullet OCS Lifting Incidents 2007-2008 (146KB PDF):
  With the release of the incident reporting rule in 2006, the Minerals Management Service (MMS) received more reliable incident information for events occurring on the Outer Continental Shelf. An MMS workgroup recently performed some analysis and completed a report on all lifting incidents reported to the MMS in 2007 and 2008. Within the report, recent trends on types of lifting devices and what was being lifted are presented for review to possibly prevent the reoccurrence of such incidents. In continuation of analysis and efforts completed to date, the MMS will work with industry to identify the leading causes of lifting incidents to reduce future undesirable incidents.

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Last Updated: 11/05/2009, 10:02 AM Central Time