What happened One of our members has recently experienced two near miss incidents, resulting from the inadequate packing of goods during transportation with the potential for more significant consequences and […]
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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.
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Safety Events
Damage to chain hoist subsea
What happened Whilst divers were lowering a large clamp for installation, the chain block used to centralise the clamp on the horizontal member became trapped in the hinge point on […]
BSEE: Stored Energy in Slings Causes Multiple Injuries
The United States Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) has published Safety Alert #445 relating to multiple injuries caused by stored energy in slings. What happened The BSEE writes: […]
Failure of slings during loading operations
What happened Personnel were loading out heavy plant at a land-based location when there was an incident involving failure of slings. A crew were lifting a large tank with a […]
Serious injury during mooring operations: rope parted
What happened The Marine Safety Investigation Unit of Transport Malta has published Safety Investigation Report 10/21 into a serious injury which occurred during the mooring of a chemical tanker of […]
LTI: person struck by uncontrolled swing in chain
What happened An anchor chain swung unexpectedly across the deck and hit a crew member, causing an injury to his foot resulting in an LTRI. Anchors were being pulled over […]
LTI: fractured finger during anchor handling
What happened? A crew member suffered a serious finger injury when he got his finger trapped. The incident occurred when a vessel had been installing mooring elements, suction anchors and […]
Cook’s arm scalded while removing food from oven
What happened At a meal time the chief cook opened the upper part of a combined oven to remove a tray of rice that was being kept heated. The tray […]
BSEE: Unsecured Pressurized Hoses Result in Hand Injuries
What happened The United States Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement BSEE) has published Safety Alert No. 442 relating to hand injuries caused by handling unsecured pressurised hoses during coil […]
Diver Finger Injury – Scrubber Blower Fan
What happened A diver suffered a minor hand injury when he put his hand on part of a fan which should not have been exposed. The incident occurred on a […]
MAIB: Capsize and sinking of fishing vessel Joanna C – vessel stability
The UK Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) has published Accident Investigation Report 7/2022 into the capsize and sinking with loss of life, of the fishing vessel Joanna C. What happened […]
American P&I Club: Vessel grounding – fatigue was a factor
What happened The American P&I Club, as part of its “Good Catch” safety series, has published a bulletin relating to a towing vessel grounding in which fatigue was a factor. […]
BSEE – “Green hats” – training and supervision of short service employees
The United States Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement has published Safety Alert #440 relating to reducing incidents through increasing training and supervision of short service employees. What happened Since […]
Personal injury – burns from hot engine oil to body and face
CHIRP Maritime, an industry charity facilitating confidential incident reporting from seafarers, has published its Annual Digest 2021, which includes a number of events and incidents of interest to IMCA members. […]
Chemical burns to body
CHIRP Maritime, an industry charity facilitating confidential incident reporting from seafarers, has published its Annual Digest 2021, which includes a number of events and incidents of interest to IMCA members. […]
Fall leading to serious personal injury
What happened A crew member suffered a fall leading to concussion and other serious injuries. The incident happened when he was single-handedly trying to hold and manoeuvre a drill tool […]
High potential incident – Foot trapped under ram cylinder
What happened A person almost had his foot crushed by a ram cylinder on a pipeline coating machine. The incident occurred at a spoolbase, during the application of pipe joint […]
LTI: Diver suffered crush injury to finger
What happened A diver sustained a crush injury to his finger. The incident occurred when a diving support vessel was working on a decommissioning project, and the dive team were […]
Accidental release of free-fall lifeboat
What happened The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) has published safety investigation report M20P0353 relating to the accidental release of a free-fall lifeboat from a bulk carrier. The incident […]
MSF: CO2 system left non-operational after servicing
What Happened The Marine Safety Forum has published Safety Alert 22-10 relating to an important safety system being left non-operational after it was serviced. The incident happened when a vessel […]
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