What happened The United States’ Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) has published Safety Alert 489 relating to a person who was injured after a fall through an open […]
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Safety Events
UK HSE: Incident during rig decommissioning leads to fatality
The United Kingdom Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has published a press release relating to an incident whilst decommissioning a North Sea gas rig, in which one person died and […]
UK HSE: fall from height injury at container port
What happened The UK Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has prosecuted a logistics company after a worker fell over 10 metres and sustained serious injuries. The worker fell through an […]
Non-fatal man overboard: worker fell from height into the sea
What happened A worker fell 3m from a new jacket into the sea. The worker was uninjured and successfully recovered without harm. The incident occurred during the installation of a […]
MSF: Chemical Handling – Eye Burn
What happened The Marine Safety Forum published Safety Alert 23-20 relating to someone getting an eye injury as a result of getting chemicals in their eye. The incident occurred when […]
Hot work whilst working at height in a confined space – job was stopped
What happened During a site visit to a vessel, it was observed that a third-party contractor’s welder was standing on the wooden platform (the actual height was over 1.80m) inside […]
Fall Protection – Defective Safety Harness
What happened During equipment recovery operations on the back deck of a vessel, a technician felt something unexpected around the Dorsal ‘D’ ring on the back of his safety harness. […]
Unprotected openings in floor grating – work stopped
What happened? Two workers removed grating panels at height on a horizontal lay system, in order to gain access to lift points for further removal of a lateral walkway section. […]
Rope access technician slipped and dislocated shoulder
What happened A rope access technician sustained an injury to the right shoulder while accessing the vessel transom port-side platform, following buoyancy module pad retrieval from the pipe string. Upon […]
Getting fall arrest equipment right
What happened A crew person was changing the lamp bulbs on the vessel mast, working at a height of around 4m above the deck. The person was wearing a full […]
LTI – Person fractured pelvis in a fall from a ladder
A crew person suffered a fractured pelvis falling 4-5 metres from a temporary access ladder onboard a cargo vessel. The ladder was installed at a previous equipment mobilisation following realisation […]
UK HSE: worker died following fall from crane platform
The UK Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has prosecuted a company after an electrician died in a fall of approximately eight metres when an access panel on the raised walkway […]
UK HSE: worker falls from height during oil platform decommissioning
The UK Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has prosecuted a civil engineering company after a worker suffered life threatening injuries after falling 15 metres when a platform he was working […]
Fatal fall from collapsing scaffolding on a merchant vessel
What happened The Hong Kong Merchant Shipping organisation reports an incident in which a sailor was killed in a fall from collapsing scaffolding. The bosun and AB were assigned to […]
MSF: LTI – Fall from Height (control of work during SIMOPS)
The Marine Safety Forum published Safety Alert 21-18 relating to an incident where someone fell from the bridge deck to the deck below. What happened Four crew in two teams […]
Bypassing safety controls – violation of working at height requirements
What went wrong On a vessel in dry dock, painting of the the hull was ongoing, using the shipyard crane and a personnel basket. During this work process it was […]
Falls from step ladders
What happened? A member reports two incidents in which persons fell off step ladders and were injured as a result. Incident 1 While climbing back down a ladder from the […]
Dropped object – wireless crane control unit
What happened? A dropped object event occurred when a crane wireless remote control unit fell from the main deck to the ROV winch room deck below. An operator was controlling […]
Electrical shock from containerised portable office
What happened? Whilst tidying a mobile office (freight) container, an employee sustained a mild electric shock by inadvertently touching an exposed live electrical cable which was obscured by several boxes […]
Man overboard from stinger
What happened? A member of the crew fell overboard through an opening in the stinger. The incident occurred with the vessel alongside in port. A team of three electricians were […]
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