Recently a serious accident occurred at a contractor’s facility when the drive chain of a crawler crane failed, causing parts to fly about injuring an employee. The American Skyhorse Crane […]
Safety Flashes
IMCA safety flashes disseminate important information on incidents and potential hazards and the lessons learnt from them that can help prevent incidents occurring elsewhere in the industry.
Individual safety events are available individually online, tagged and searchable, while the traditional PDF collections are also available for download.
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Safety Events
Failure of transmission systems components on Aker 50-15 offshore cranes
Set out below is Safety Notice 2/97 issued by the UK Health and Safety Executive (HSE). It should be self explanatory. Failure of Transmission Systems Components on Aker 50-15 Offshore […]
ROV incident
During routine maintenance on a Slingsby TA9 seven function manipulator jaw assembly, while removing the finger retaining bolts, a bolt with 80% of the thread exposed as it was being […]
Cable handling incident
A technician was knocked unconscious when he was struck on the head by a cable. The incident occurred when cable being used to pull the beginning of a 23″ pipeline […]
Dive Dynamics AH3 diving helmet
Set out below is a safety notice issued at the end of 1997 by UWI Circle Ltd of Aberdeen, UK. It should be self explanatory, but if you have any […]
Anchor handling incident
An incident occurred on a vessel which was conducting an anchor handling operation. A sudden tensioning and de-tensioning of the tugger wire occurred, probably due to the vessel rising or […]
Fire
A fire occurred when paint ignited in a bulk storage area on a vessel due to welding being carried out on the main deck. The firewatcher for the area had […]
Container incidents
Three separate incidents have been reported involving container double and personnel doors. A control van personnel door fell off whilst someone was trying to open it; fortunately the individual jumped […]
Explosion during removal of old resin plugs
A near miss incident recently occurred when there was an explosion of the resin/wire plug in a Wirelock ROV umbilical lifting/docking cone. Heat, applied using an oxy acetylene torch to […]
Entry procedures
On a semi-submersible drilling unit, the port-aft column was opened up to allow a team to gain entry for visual inspection of an instrument on the cross-tubular section. Access to […]
Potential problems with Hy Flex fire extinguishers
One of our members has informed us that the suppliers of HyFlex fire extinguishers have advised them that there is a potential problem with their DDC fire extinguishers. Following a […]
Object falling from crane
An IMCA Member reported that during mobilisation a hydraulic jack dropped onto the main deck while work was being carried out on the straightener in the crane tower. The Contractor […]
Nitrox misuse
A third party fitted the wrong regulator on a Nitrox cylinder despite the fact that the quad was fitted with plastic shields marked ‘Diving Gas’. The regulator was of a […]
Contamination of divers by unknown liquid
Two divers, when disconnecting a flange on a pipeline, encountered what appeared to be water escaping from the flange. The fluid was subsequently found to contain toxic volatile condensate compounds. […]
The guarding of moving parts in an ROV
We have been advised of a recent accident when a ROV Technician working on a Tether Management System lost some fingers in a chain drive mechanism. The company subsequently designed […]
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