Perenco suspends crane operations after offshore accident

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Peren­co has shut down crane op­er­a­tions as the Oc­cu­pa­tion­al Safe­ty and Health Au­thor­i­ty Agency (OS­HA) start­ed in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to the crane col­lapse at Peren­co’s Samaan Al­pha Drilling Plat­form, urg­ing em­ploy­ers, par­tic­u­lar­ly those op­er­at­ing in high-risk in­dus­tries, to pro­vide safe and healthy work­ing en­vi­ron­ments for em­ploy­ees.

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OS­HA said its in­spec­torate was re­view­ing avail­able in­ci­dent footage, op­er­a­tional records, doc­u­men­ta­tion and oth­er ev­i­dence to de­ter­mine the cause of Wednes­day’s in­ci­dent, in which a crane be­came de­tached from its pedestal dur­ing lift­ing op­er­a­tions and fell, in­jur­ing the op­er­a­tor.