The IADC’s report shows its contract-drilling members had a world-wide recordable incident rate of 0.81 per 100 full-time employees in 2013 (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data for 2012 showed U.S. private industry with 3.2 recordable cases per 100 full-time workers) and drilling contractors had a global lost-time incident rate of 0.26 in 2013 (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data for 2012 showed U.S. private industry with 1.8 cases of days away from work, job transfer or job restrictions due to injury for private industry).
Overall, the global drilling industry experienced an eight percent reduction in the total recordable incident rate, while lost-time injuries and fatalities held steady.