Fatality case study involving pipe handling catwalk machine -- what happened?
A floor hand was caught between a pipe handling catwalk machine and a stanchion post on the drill floor of a dynamically positioned drillship. The operation at the time of the incident was picking up pipe from the pipe handling catwalk machine, making up at the rotary table, and running in the hole. The floor hand was positioned in a step-back area adjacent to where the pipe handling catwalk machine enters / exits the drill floor.
The floor hand moved out of the step-back area and stood next to a stanchion post adjacent to the pipe handling catwalk machine with his back to the well center. As the catwalk operator moved the catwalk machine away from well center, the floor hand was caught between the platform of the catwalk machine and the stanchion post. The floor hand subsequently died from his injuries.