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The Marine Safety Forum published Safety Alert 20-11 relating to a potential dropped object in a load.  The near miss incident occurred during offloading of casing from a supply vessel.  […]

What happened? A dropped object event occurred when a crane wireless remote control unit fell from the main deck to the ROV winch room deck below. An operator was controlling […]

What happened? While running in drill pipe on a drilling vessel, part of a guide sheave failed and fell approximately 15m to the drill floor. A ‘Red Zone’ was in […]

What happened? Marine Safety Forum Safety Alert 20-04 describes a potential dropped object (PDO) during cargo operations. A wooden baton of the type often used to support covers attached to […]

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 […]

What happened? Multiple metal objects were dropped during a lifting operation using a flexible intermediate bulk container (FIBC). It was being used to lift garbage from a below deck stores […]

What happened? At a wind turbine tower, chains weighing 17kg fell 84m. The incident occurred during the pulling through of a 66kv HV cable during installation. The surplus chain came […]

What happened? A set of heavy chain links, or ‘Brothers’ used in lifting, fell from a turbine tower onto the front deck of a Crew Transfer Vehicle (CTV) below. The […]

What happened? Two lifting bags detached and fell from the crane hook on a wind turbine tower. The incident occurred during lowering operations at the end of an annual service […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

A member has noted that certain headlamps supplied for use with certain helmets, as used extensively for working at height in the offshore renewables sector, could come loose and fall. […]

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? A metal plate weighing 5kg detached itself from a freight container and fell onto the quayside during vessel loading operations.  The crew noticed that the bottom of the […]

What happened? During piggyback drilling operations, a driller inadvertently operated the sample winch control lever instead of the power swivel fast rotation control lever as intended.  Activating the sample winch […]

What happened? Yard personnel found a flood lamp broken on the ground.  It was found to have fallen from a VLS tower that had been in long-term storage for a […]

The Marine Safety Forum (MSF) has published Safety Alert 18-23, in which a 20ft basket was lifted during offshore cargo operations.  The bridge team were later informed by the installation […]