What happened? A 64-year-old worker was fatally wounded by shrapnel ejected from testing equipment. He was leak testing eight 1500 litre cylinders, by applying compressed air inside to create pressure. […]
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.
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Safety Events
Two electrical incidents – UK HSE
Here are two recent prosecutions brought by the UK Health and Safety Executive, both relating to inappropriate working arrangements with live power. Incident 1 Two self-employed workers received serious burns […]
Short circuit on 440v AC bus bars – arc flash
What happened? A crewman was doing electrical work on a 440v power distribution panel (PDP), when a loose earth bonding cable made contact with a live 440v bus bar causing […]
Electric shock resulting in burn
What happened? An ROV technician received an electric shock to his left arm beneath the elbow, resulting in a burn. ROV personnel were working in the technical workshop completing a […]
Basket snagged on ship’s structure
What happened? The Marine Safety Forum (MSF) has published Safety Alert 19-14 relating to an incident whereby a basket snagged on the ships structure causing damage to the vessel and […]
Unsafe lifting operations – potential dropped object
What happened? The Marine Safety Forum (MSF) has published Safety Alert 19-15 relating to a potential dropped object during unsafe lifting operations. An observation was recorded during a routine vessel […]
Wrapped cargo slipped during loading and fell
What happened? A large load weighing over six tonnes was dropped during loading operations. The item was a hot air duct. The centre of gravity (COG) of the load and […]
Dropped object from crane
What happened? A composite block forming the end stop topping of a crane fell 20m from the crane to deck. The incident occurred after a Suez Canal transit, when it […]
High potential near miss dropped object
What happened? During trans-spooling of 1½” hydraulic jumper from a wooden reel to a subsea carousel, the second end termination head of the hydraulic jumper pipe released from the reel […]
Dropped object near miss – crane boom bumper stop falls off
What happened? This was a high potential near miss dropped object incident in which a crane boom bumper stop fell onto the crane cab. No personnel were injured; however, there […]
Coronavirus Outbreak
With the ongoing international response to the new coronavirus outbreak (often referred to as 2019-nCOV), IMCA has reached out to our HSSE Committee and collated the following material that may […]
Poor condition of on-board equipment
What happened? During ‘safety walk arounds’ on one of our members’ vessels, certain equipment was seen to be in poor condition. In the first case, a fire blanket in the […]
MAIB: fatal man overboard incident whilst boarding tug
What happened? The UK Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) has published Accident Investigation Report 15/2019 into a fatality whereby a man fell overboard whilst boarding a tug at an oil […]
Worker fell into sea from gangway and drowned
What happened? The Singapore Tripartite Alliance for Workplace Safety and Health (WSH) has published Accident Notification 1920060 relating to a fatal fall from a gangway. This incident is still under […]
Explosion and fire on-board the chemical tanker Stolt Groenland
What happened? The UK Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) has published its interim report into a serious explosion and fire on-board the chemical tanker Stolt Groenland on 28 September 2019 […]
Near miss during helicopter operations
What happened? During helicopter flight boarding, a member of the crew crossed a hard barrier (stairway access chain) with a restriction sign and approached the flight deck from the aft […]
Water ingress during tropical storm
What happened? A vessel took on a significant amount of rainwater on the upper tween deck during an intense tropical storm. At the time of the storm, the forward crane […]
There’s something in my eye!
What happened? A welder reported to the Chief Officer that he had got something in his eye. The welder had been welding closed ballast tank manhole covers before breaking for […]
LTI: step into open deck hatch causes fall
What happened? During personnel transfer operations on an offshore renewables crew transfer vessel (CTV), a deckhand stepped backwards into an open hatch and fell, resulting in an injury. Before the […]
Failure of life raft securing strap
What happened? A life raft from the starboard forward life raft station made an unplanned deployment into the sea. The incident occurred in early afternoon with calm seas and clear […]
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