Hibernia Management and Development Company Ltd. (HMDC) has reported that on March 20, 2022 a crane on the Hibernia Platform was lifting a mini container when it made contact with a scaffold hoarding. There were three people working inside the hoarding at the time of contact. No one was injured and there was no damage to the scaffold hoarding.

West pedestal crane operations were halted and HMDC has initiated an investigation to determine the potential classification of the incident.

C-NLOPB Safety Officers were already scheduled to travel to the Hibernia Platform in the coming days and will follow up with HMDC to review this incident and the near miss that occurred on March 15.

The C-NLOPB is also monitoring HMDC’s investigations of these incidents.

HMDC
Margot Bruce-O’Connell
Public and Government Affairs
(709)-746-8383
margot.p.bruce-o’connell@exxonmobil.com 

C-NLOPB
Lesley Rideout
C-NLOPB Communications Lead
(709)-725-2900
lrideout@cnlopb.ca

Incident Disclosures 2022