What happened? A lightning conductor mounted on top of a service crane came free from its mounting and dropped 75 meters. The conductor fell through the deck carousel hatch and […]
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
Fall from the quayside into water
Whilst slinging a palleted water bag (load), a third-party contract worker who was assisting in the operation fell approximately 3 metres from the quayside into the water. The original, risk-assessed […]
Sewage spilled onto the quayside
30-40 litres of sewage water was spilled onto the quayside during a transfer operation from vessel to sewage truck. There was no discharge into the sea due to a contained […]
Fall from Height Leading to Injury
During work to change a wire on an FRC davit, a crewman lost his footing, slipped and fell 2.5m to deck below. At the end of the operation, the bosun […]
Ignited hand sanitiser
What happened? Someone got his hands burnt when alcohol based hand sanitiser caught fire. The person was using alcohol based hand sanitiser as recommended during the Corona pandemic. The person […]
COVID-19: positive observation – maintaining social distancing during toolbox talks and meetings
What happened? The local mooring department of a contractor member has enforced strict physical distancing in external areas for toolbox talks (TBT) and other operational meetings. Circle markings on the […]
Positive observation: plexiglass shields installed in company shared vehicles
What happened? Following vehicle cleaning and disinfection protocol an additional initiative to protect drivers and passengers from COVID-19 during the pandemic is the installation of protective plexiglass shields in all […]
Positive observation: installation of disinfection tunnels
What happened? One of our members has installed a disinfecting tunnel providing an additional control measure in the fight against the spread of COVID-19 and other diseases. The disinfectant system […]
Vessel gangway rolled off platform tower and fell to the quayside in high wind
What happened? During stormy weather, there were sudden and violent gusts of wind of greater than 50 knots, resulting in a vessel alongside being pushed off the quay. This resulted […]
Near miss: dropped clump weight
What happened? A clump weight fell approximately 30m to deck and landed around a metre to where a rigger was working. The incident occurred just after the boom of the […]
LTI: worker lost his thumb
What happened? During drilling operations, a worker got his thumb caught under a part of a drill being lowered into position, resulting in the amputation of the thumb just above […]
Fire in engine room and subsequent collision with structure on transport barge
What happened? During the tow of a structure to location, a fire occurred in the engine room of the tow tug. This led to a blackout resulting in a collision […]
Lifting operations: wire hoist rope failure
What happened? When conducting a standard lifting operation of a 24.5te storage vessel and lifting frame (approximately 36% of the crane 70te maximum rated capacity) the wire hoist rope (WHR) […]
UK HSE: worker fell into lift shaft – safety controls bypassed
What happened? The UK HSE prosecuted a company after a 34-year-old employee was moving a loaded lift trolley in the tool department of a hangar when he fell into the […]
Vessel flooding incident
What happened? A vessel suffered flooding and loss of integrity, caused by sea water ingress into the engine room, due to a hole developing in the box cooler bulkhead. A […]
Grounding of ro-ro freight vessel Seatruck Performance
The UK MAIB (Marine Accident Investigation Branch) has released Accident Investigation Report 4/2020 into the grounding of a freight vessel. This roll-on/roll-off (ro-ro) freight vessel ran aground while transiting the […]
Recent UK MAIB investigations (shifting of cargo and loss of cargo)
The UK MAIB (Marine Accident Investigation Branch) has released two reports recently relating to incidents involving the shifting of and loss of cargo. Cargo shift and damage to vehicles on […]
Agitator started moving during mud tank cleaning – leading to injury
What happened? An agitator in a mud tank started up when an employee of a third-party contractor working in the tank was in the way. He was hit by the […]
Worker fell from height and suffered life changing injuries
What happened? A worker was paralysed from the waist down when he fell 3.4 metres to the bottom of a ships hold. A 28-year-old worker, a stevedore employed to unload […]
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