Safety Flashes

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

What happened? During maintenance of a vessel’s main engine there was a requirement to remove the charge air cooler weighing 400kg. The third-party contractor who was tasked with the maintenance […]

What happened? A chain link failed causing a load of over 260kg to fall 1.5m to deck. The incident occurred during transfer of a bundle of scrap cable, when a […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

What happened? During crane operations on an offshore vessel, quantities of grease fell from the crane block and landed on deck.  The incident occurred in daylight, when a wellhead head […]

What happened? The Marine Safety Forum (MSF) has published Safety Alert 19-08 relating to two dropped object incidents on the same vessel.  Both events had the potential to cause major […]

What happened? During subsea lifting operations with divers in the water, a large mattress lifting beam was lowered inappropriately close to the divers.  The two saturation divers were deployed on […]

What happened? During routine lifting activities, a vessel crane’s (auxiliary) anti-two block (A2B) suspension wires failed, causing the A2B weight assembly to fall along the crane wire to the crane […]

What happened? A member notes an incident during lifting operations, resulting in dropped flexible pipe. A 6tonne riser test piece (RTP) was being lifted in preparation for load testing the […]

What happened? During a routine lifting operation, a pallet laden with about 1 tonne of bottled water, slid off the pallet lifting forks and fell around 8 metres to the […]

What happened? A storage box weighing approximately 770kg fell 4m from the forks of a forklift truck.  The incident occurred when storage boxes containing items of equipment located on an […]

What happened? A rigger was struck by a lever hoist hook, which led to a restricted work case.  The incident occurred during lifting operations and had the potential to have […]

The Marine Safety Forum (MSF) has published Safety Alert 18-26, in which an AB was struck on the head by a crane hook during routine deck cargo transfer operations. A […]

What happened? During drilling operations on a land-based drilling rig, the thimble within the hard eye of the winch wire momentarily caught (snagged) on the edge of the drill rig […]