This guy was a desk jockey, fresh out of college and had never been in the field in his life.
I was the third party inspector overseeing the inspection of the pipe for Exxon.
Exxon had decided to stick an engineer with each inspection crew to oversee the third party inspector that was in turn overlooking the inspection company.
My job as third party was to make sure the inspection co followed Exxon specs.
When the forklift operator dumped the pipe, 4 jts IIRC, I told the inspection crew to back off and let it go, the operator of the inspection crew told his crew to back off, the Exxon engineer then told the inspection crew to stop the pipe.
One of the hands on the inspection crew followed the instructions of the Exxon engineer, grabbed the first jt of pipe trying to stop it and promptly got flipped through the air like a toy.
That’s when the idiot engineer decided he was going to step in between the pipe on the rack and the pipe rolling toward him and stop it so it didn’t bang together.
I told him to move out of the way but he wouldn’t move and there wasn’t time to be nice so I just grabbed him by the back of his neck and threw him on the ground out of the way.
He landed on his face in the dirt.
Probably the first time he ever got his hands dirt.
The only person on the job that didn’t know it was unsafe to try and stop that pipe was the guy with the most education, the Exxon engineer.
I didn’t care who the guy was, Exxon engineer or not, I ran his butt off the job site.
He came back with another Exxon engineer and I ran both of them off.
The 2 of them then came back with my boss and the big dog at Exxon.
It was the big dog that got in my face and he’s the one I told if he didn’t want me touching an Exxon employee I’d be glad to let him get crushed instead of throwing him out of the way.
When my boss didn’t say a word big dog Exxon got the message we didn’t give a damn if they got themselves killed we would be more than happy to stand their and watch and never say a word if that’s the way they wanted it.
After that Exxon pulled their engineers from monitoring the inspection crews.
If one did show up on the job as part of their training day it was for observation only and they stayed out of the way and followed the instructions of the third party inspector, they didn’t give instructions.
Fish oil?
Western Europe*s biggest oil producer is suffering from the collapse in crude prices. But another top commodity export in Norway, salmon, is fetching record-high prices because of low supplies and a weak currency. As the seafood-industry news site iLaks.no reported this month, oil has fallen so low and salmon risen so high that one standard, 4.5 kilogram fish now costs more than a barrel of crude, measured in kroner. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-26/one-salmon-costs-more-than-barrel-of-oil-as-slump-deepens-chart?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link