What happened? A crew member felt faint and subsequently collapsed after working in a confined space. The incident occurred following the work of a four-person team on rust removal maintenance […]
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
Safety flashes – a summary of 2019
This is a summary of the Safety Flash incidents reported in 2019. All the published safety incidents are available on the IMCA website as individual web pages. Safety Flashes, comprising […]
Improper use of heaving line
What happened? During a mooring operation, vessel crew were found to be using a 4 ton shackle attached to a heaving line (instead of proper “monkey fist”). What went wrong? […]
Vessel hit and destroyed fender
What happened? A vessel collided with the quay, destroying the fenders. The vessel picked up the pilot and proceeded towards the harbour. The wind was SSW 4-5 with good visibility. […]
Unknown floating objects in 500m safety zone
What happened? Several floating objects were identified in the 500m safety zone of an installation. Our members’ vessel was requested to remove/tow these objects out of the safety zone to […]
Exploding television recovered from sea
What happened? One morning the crew of a workboat noticed an old television set floating in the sea near their work area. They decided to take it on-board in order […]
Uncontrolled movement of retractable gangway
What happened? During lifting up and securing of a vessel’s retractable gangway, the spring latch of the lifting device disconnected causing an uncontrolled release of the holding wire, and the […]
Failed shackle on vessel life raft
What happened? There was a failure of two stainless steel “D” shackles forming part of a life raft hydrostatic release assembly on a vessel. This was discovered whilst the vessel […]
Diver trapped by Anchor Chain
What happened? During diving operations to locate a pipeline end manifold (PLEM) near a single point mooring (SPM), a diver was trapped by an anchor chain. The incident occurred when […]
Important safety notice to users of certain Crosby shackle products
Crosby has prepared an Important Safety Notice for some specific Crosby 7/8″ 6.5t shackles. They have reached out to their customers with a communication and have asked that the following […]
Welder at work injured during close SIMOPS
What happened? A welder was hit and slightly injured by a lashing wire during lashing operations being conducted close by. Whilst all the deck crew were lashing reels, a welder […]
Raising awareness on safety barriers such as railings and gratings
What happened? The Transport Safety Investigation Bureau (TSIB) of Singapore has released Safety Flyer 2019/02 entitled The importance of ensuring proper inspection and maintenance regime. It is intended raise awareness […]
Unsafe boarding during unmooring operation
What happened? A vessel was departing from port when crew found it necessary to remove the mooring lines from the shoreside bollards with no safe un-boarding/boarding arrangements in place – […]
High potential incident – man injured while falling overboard (MOB)
What happened? Whilst descending stairs to a boat-landing area on an offshore platform, a sub-contracted employee of one of our members tripped on a 2-inch discharge hose that had been […]
Man overboard – fall from pilot ladder
What happened? During boarding a vessel via pilot ladder from a service boat, an IT service technician lost his footing and fell from the second step of pilot ladder into […]
Finger trapped and injured whilst moving hatch covers
What happened? An AB sustained a serious finger injury when his finger was trapped while attempting to secure a forecastle hatch whilst securing the area following a mooring operation. What […]
Hand injury during lift operations
What happened? During a mechanical lifting operation using a mobile crane, the crane was required to move and set up at a new location. The crane outrigger stabiliser pads (1.2T […]
Crush injury to hand while attempting to secure crane hook
What happened? While attempting to secure a crane hook to the deck handrail with a polypropylene rope, a rigger’s right hand was caught between the hook shank and the handrail. […]
Cabling in ROV hanger inadvertently severed by the ROV launch and recovery frame
What happened? During weekly testing of the vessel emergency firefighting pump, the engineer discovered that he could not start the pump. What went wrong? Initial investigations identified that the electrical […]
Main ROV lift wire umbilical and bullet parted
What happened? An ROV vessel was engaged in subsea operation undertaking routine inspection, repair and maintenance (IRM) work. While an inspection class ROV was being recovered to deck within its […]
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