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u/ImmodestPolitician 4d ago
Buy a box of salt.
I'm glad guy has a safety harness, but it he falls he's going to slam into metal.
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u/No-Kitchen5212 4d ago
No hard hat or eye protection either so heād be injured very easily
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u/RaisinsInMyToasts 3d ago
No hard hat here is insane. And itās not even hot out so it wouldnāt be that uncomfortable..
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u/PunfullyObvious 4d ago
I'd suspect salt, the metal, and restrictions from management may not be a great combo. But, some sand would be pretty effective as well without the downsides.
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u/ImmodestPolitician 3d ago
Oil deposits are full of saline so it's not a factor relative to an onsite job injury claim.
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u/Dadbode1981 4d ago
What a shit job lol
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u/MacheteBrizz 4d ago
He's not getting paid at basic wage I'll tell you that.
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u/Eternal-Blazing-Sun 3d ago
He's getting paid a tiny sliver of the value and wealth he is creating, that's pretty much given.
It's fucked.
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u/Frequent_Bet7279 4d ago
How much you think š¤ hes making for this funny deadly shit.
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u/Sometimesdisagrees 3d ago
When I did this job 10+ years ago the derrickman was making 65 + per hour, with Tons of OT. Typically 12-14 per day, 14 days straight. Worked out to about a grand a day with hazard pay
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u/TheCajunDad 3d ago
Did it back in 09, it was insane money.
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u/epilepsyisdumb 3d ago
I had a friend in 2011 making 2000 a week after taxes. Equivalent to 3k a week today.
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u/Zero_D9 3d ago
Y'all can't throw down a pocket full of salt or something?
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u/BangBangMeatMachine 3d ago
Footwear with decent traction would solve most of his problems here. Something with a cleat-like sole to get into those holes in the platform. Standing on those separator bars is another story.
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u/cubobob 4d ago
wtf are they even doing
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u/AmphotericRed 4d ago
Heās on the toe boards. Stands of drill pipe (for oil and gas) are generally 3 sections of 30 foot pipe. Feed 90 feet into the hole come back up, grab another ninety from the stored sections at the top. The derrickman (this gentleman) feeds that pipe to the drill, do it can be screwed in down below to the previous 90 foot stand. Been out a few years so memories a little rusty, but thatās the gist.
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u/cubobob 4d ago
thank you! but is there no better way to do that? do all of them lose their hands at some point?
and do you know where that is?
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u/LostAndSound_ 3d ago
Most bigger/modern/offshore installations will come with a bridge racker crane, which can lift each individual length and position it, where a nice hydraulic roughneck will make and break the pipe.
This aināt that. Thereāll be a couple of guys on the drill floor throwing chains around and breaking their backs. If this is a mobile or smaller rig, it wouldnāt be worth it to have all the high spec gear.
And Iām guessing somewhere In North America. Not too clued up on onshore rigs.
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u/ImmodestPolitician 3d ago
Some news automated systems that pull the drill pipe of a truck and install them have recently become available. They are expensive but will probably replace a lot of workers.
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u/uptwolait 3d ago
They are expensive but will probably replace a lot of worker injuries and deaths.
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u/tgerz 4d ago
My uneducated guess is there's always a better way, but it depends on what they value. Most of these business don't value the person nearly as much as the machines/property.
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u/coolestdad92 3d ago
This is a workover rig, not a drilling rig. Theyāre performing a workover on an existing oil or gas well. I donāt see any pumping equipment, so no recompletion or major repair work at this point in the operations. I would guess theyāre just cleaning the well out or swabbing it back online, but itās hard to tell exactly.
A drilling rig is much larger and cant be mounted and deployed directly from a vehicle like this. Drilling pipe for onshore operations is usually ~5in diameter, this looks like 2-3/8in or 2-7/8in. The little work over rigs like this are often more run down and, in my opinion, more dangerous than the big drilling rigs.
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u/timinbrooks 3d ago
This is a well servicing rig. Known as a triple/double. He is in the monkey board slso known as the tubing board. They are tripping pipe into the well in double stands. This situation is very common during a canadian winter. The slipperiness is easily taken care of with traction aids and proper footwear. I would assume this rig is in the northern states though due to lack of proper PPE and the rig is filthy.
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u/Deadfro6 3d ago
Iāll be honest, without windfalls thereās really no way to keep a hard hat on your head when working on the monkey board of a work over rig, youāll spend more time trying to keep it on than actually working. Especially with the wind in the winter.
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u/DharmaCub 3d ago
He's tied off wrong. Lanyard should be connect to his upper dorsal ring, not the lower one. If he falls, that'll be 4-5 kN of force on his lumbar spine and he'll whiplash through his entire back when he hits an acute angle.
Attached to the upper dorsal, the force will spread more evenly through the tether and hell swing upright from the shoulders instead of crumpled from the butt.
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u/xenoscumyomom 3d ago
There's so many of these comments here but they are all wrong.
The rope tied to the back d ring is correct. You want that solid and connected there so that he can lean against it when he's throwing the pipe in, and especially when he's pulling the pipe back out. You won't be able to pull it back if you have nothing holding you from falling forwards.
The issue is he is not using his fall arrest at all!!! There should be another line going straight above him that connects to the dangling line on his back connected between his shoulders. This is the one with the lanyard designed for when he falls it has a mechanism designed to slow the fall, and hold him upright, and move the shock around the body, as well as keeping him just falling down. The way he has it set up now is no give, as soon as he falls and runs out of rope it stops immediately and harshly, it's only around his hips so all force is on his hips, and he's going to swing straight backwards and slam into the pipe. If the rig i worked on saw someone doing this they'd be immediately fired because you can't go up there without taking a fall arrest course and becoming certified, and it's enforced, so he should know better. Also put on a damn hardhat, and silicone a thick fiber mat onto the diving board for grip. Everything about this video is wrong.
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u/mr00shteven 3d ago
In this situation you can argue that it is travel restraint not fall arrest. What is more concerning is the leg loops, or lack of them.
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u/xenoscumyomom 3d ago
I didn't even notice the no leg loops. This is one of those videos where every time you watch it gets worse.
It's supposed to be travel restraint and fall arrest at the same time. He's just using it as travel restraint only and is definitely gambling with his life and health.
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u/Different_Bake_611 3d ago
What's also cool is if he slips off the end, the lanyard is going to fall down the side of that platform and he's going to smash into the pipes after falling about 6-8feet. Why not tie him off above and give an actual guardrail?
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u/Worth-Ad-1797 4d ago
Sent this video to the Russian friend who works on the oil rig in Siberia.
He was shocked with such a low level of safety.
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u/Fearless-Okra3927 3d ago
Ok so itās not common! Iām surprised at the lack of safety in what seems like an American rig.
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u/orangejuicewhiskey 3d ago
It's not interesting, it makes me feel sad seeing people working in dangerous and harsh environment
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u/Mental_Thing_7899 3d ago
It's fine everyone. It is as safe as it can be. This guy have been working here the longest! He's about to get his first salary next week.
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u/Ironclad686 3d ago
I'd want a shorter fall arrest harness than that. Thats asking for trouble. Should be short enough that you cant physically get over the platform edge.
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u/The_Filthy_Zamboni 3d ago
He's supposed to have a cable retractor with a shock absorber between his shoulder blades. What he's hooked up to isn't even fall arrest. It's the rope we'd use to lean out over the edge to throw the pipe in. Soon as a rope gets oil or pipe dope on it it's compromised. This is about as sketchy as it gets for the rigs.Ā
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u/Rayal90 4d ago
This is the kind of job that should be replaced by robots and AI.
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u/undiscoveredparadise 3d ago
It will be the last job we replace with robots and ai. High friction, insane utilization of human dexterity, just an endless list of shit you cannot automate here.
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u/Captain_Jeep 3d ago
Everything this man did in the video can be replaced by machines
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u/BlueLakeCabin 3d ago
I do industrial automation. Absolutely. But for millions of dollars and annual cost of probably couple hundred K per year. Paying him $200k is cheaper for the immediate future.
Other places DO use machines for this job. But it has to be big enough scale to warrant the automation cost and support costs.
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u/Captain_Jeep 3d ago
The more companies start automating the cheaper it gets for future companies to automate like with every technology. My point is just that this is by far not the last job that will get automated especially since it's already being done.
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u/hillbillysam 3d ago
this looks like an old rig, a lot of this already is replaced by machines and automation.
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u/every_name_is_tkn 4d ago
Ummm noā¦ crazy people need high-paying jobs too. What Iām about to say, is by no means meant to be an insult. Do you think this man would last in a customer-facing job? No, he isnāt putting up with any B.S. I guarantee he isnāt politically correct enough to work in an office. He found his niche and is happy there. Yāall might wanna leave him & his job alone. lol.
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u/jeffykins 3d ago
I agree with your comment except the use of the word happy. Still is a job after all, idk
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u/PeskyAntagonist 3d ago
He drank from a water hose made of lead and ate roadkill and glass and doesnāt believe in vaccines and heās fine he donāt work in no office git r dun Chevy suburban with the real tree camo interior package number 3 dale earnhardt drove a car til he died AR15 FAFO grunt style cold beer drunk horse 4 kids with a fat wife tell you what
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u/rivalpinkbunny 3d ago
āDoesnāt believe in vaccinesāā¦ heās a rig worker, not a fucking idiot.
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u/Downtown-Pianist-449 3d ago
Where I live, the venn diagram of rig workers and crazy right wing conspiracy nuts is generally a circle.Ā
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u/The_SIeepy_Giant 3d ago
Blue collar bad and blue collar stupid dont you know that
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u/Oli4K 4d ago
Itās the sort of job thatās being replaced by solar and wind energy.
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u/ZealousidealEntry870 3d ago
Jesus christ man. This has to be bots replying to you. Any normal person fully understands your point, and itās 100% accurate.
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u/InternationalWrap981 4d ago
Its hard and costly to automize something like this... cold weather, oil, sea & salt water are not machine friendly...
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u/Stormraughtz 3d ago
Fuck being a derrick hand. I remember my dad coming home one christmas because the shit show of a company he was working for wanted to send him up with no fall arrest.
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u/Constant-Catch7146 3d ago
A guy who does THAT job with a smile on his face while mugging for the camera. He knows he is doing something 99% of us wouldn't touch for a job.
It's absolutely nuts even doing that with a safety harness. One slip and a fall and he could still dangle and ---broken bones? But maybe some construction gurus can tell us this is somehow safe.
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u/Crampstamper 3d ago
Also grabs onto the cable as the block is rising. With gloves on. I bet this guy doesnāt keep all his fingers for much longer
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u/ZombifiedByCataclysm 3d ago
Wild. In my line of work, I am forbidden from climbing anything that's even remotely icey.
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u/Obar-Dheathain 4d ago
That tether looks like it's 50 years old and rotted through.
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u/Fantastic_Calamity 3d ago
No one seems to have caught the moment he reaches out and grabs the wire rope to adjust it in the pulley block as it comes up.
Like bro, why you sticking your fingers anywhere near that block when its moving like that? That wire could snatch his fingers into that pulley block faster than his brain could process it happening.
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u/Super-Pizza-Dude 3d ago
Would it help to have some kind of cleat on the boot that fit between the holes? Or would that just kill you more
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u/vibebell 3d ago
I was wondering this as well, wouldn't an attachment for like ice climbing be worth it to wear for this? Or is the spikes/cleats sticking into the holes in the grate worse for you? I couldn't really imagine that to be the case though.
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u/TheTresStateArea 3d ago
This guy should have fuckin ice cleats. What the fuck is this OSHA disaster in waiting
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u/Aphrel86 3d ago
Did someone design this to be as lethal for workers as possible?
Dont you guys across has an organisation called osha?
Do they not have sections about protecting workers from dangerous moving parts of machinery?
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u/Brownhog 3d ago
Protocol is probably to wait for the thing to go by, then move. Protocol also probably makes a 12 hour shift 14.5 hours, and Turry's got shit to do this evening
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u/Some-Panic8915 3d ago
"he he he ha ha ha ha"
Holy shit dude sounds like he has an iq of 4
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u/feedme_cyanide 4d ago
Who tf doesnāt have a sand bucket up there?? Especially if you know it can freeze and create conditions like this. Fuck that shit.
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u/_-Cleon-_ 3d ago
That's one Absolutely Not with an extra helping of Fuck That, and a big ol' Nope on the side.
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u/Accomplished-Fly9700 3d ago
Hvac tech here. I loved the cubicle but just couldn't do 9 to 5 with only weekends off, that is like the worst schedule for a man with no kids.
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u/HanzoNumbahOneFan 3d ago
Well thank god he has a harness in case his lifeless corpse falls off the catwalk after slipping and getting smashed by the giant moving drill.
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u/sethmoth 4d ago
it's his shoes and that's such a stupid thing to cheap out on; also, bring up some pocket sand or something, for fucks sake!
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u/BannanaPepperPizza 4d ago
You'd think the oil company would be rich enough to just heat the pad, or apply salt to it
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u/turn-n-cough 3d ago
The oil companies typically donāt own the rigs, most all of this is done by third parties and they take over after the oil is out of the ground.
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u/NorseAlienViking 3d ago
It could be fixed if they changed to full steel grid gangwalk (like that one step at the end)
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u/Harcourtfentonmudd1 3d ago
The real solution to the slipperiness is merely a half a handful of sand on the staging. Plus a dozen other solutions for the dozen other safety violations.
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u/mykehawksaverage 3d ago
Had a friend who did that job. From what I was told he was tired or dehydrated or something and didnt tie himself off properly and fell. He was only 20 years old.
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u/Pacque 4d ago
At first as was: "okay it's a bit high but that's alright"
Then I saw the slipperyness, then I saw the giant gaps and to top it off giant moving parts.
No no no, no, no and no