The Occupational Safety and Health Agency (OSHA) has issued a prohibition notice following its initial investigations into the partial collapse of Well Services Petroleum Limited’s Rig 110 in the East Soldado Field.
According to the Agency’s website, a prohibition notice is served when there is serious and imminent danger towards the safety and health of employees and others. Once served, it has “immediate effect to prohibit or restrict the use of the entire industrial establishment or part of it, until the existing danger has been removed or the OSH Act has been complied with.”
The OSH Agency says it responded swiftly to the report of the accident, approximately thirty minutes after notification with a team of Inspectors. Senior Inspector Mr. Jason Loorkhoor, Head of the Agency’s Major Hazards Unit, is leading OSHA’s independent investigation within the context of the duties and requirements of the Occupational Safety and Health Act, Chapter 88:08.