monkey board

Both workers were instructed to get down before the monkey board was lowered.

Derrickhand and Floorhand climbed up on the monkey board and removed pins.

Monkey Board Fall arrest system will be located to allow latching of 5th wheel pin, eliminating the possibility of a worker being in an unsafe position (pinch point).

Check all handrail components and welds for integrity (especially those at high elevations (monkey boards, tubing boards and rod boards) and those with prefabs attached).

On my right I could dimly make out the big pipe storage racks, on my left the edge of the monkey board, no handrail, just a sheer drop of a hundred feet.

JTA and JSA completed on the handling of stands on the monkey board with emphasis on the proper usage of hold-back rope and signaling techniques.

After some discussion on how to perform the task, it was decided to use 2 gin pole trucks and hook up the fork tubes at the bottom of the monkey board (fork tubes are welded on the monkey board for easy removal).

It seemed endless, and I knew now that it must be some part of the drilling derrick, the kidder, I was now almost sure, that led up to the "monkey board," that narrow shelf where a man guided the half-ton sections of the drill pipe, as it came from the ground, into the storage racks behind.