MSF – Near-miss: Dropped objects
- Safety Flash
- Published on 8 June 2012
- Generated on 12 July 2025
- IMCA SF 05/12
- 1 minute read
The MSF has published two Safety Flashes regarding a number of recent near miss incidents involving dropped objects.
- In one incident on an offshore vessel, a piece of stainless steel flat bar fell from the davit from a height of 2 metres and narrowly missed a crew member.
- In another incident on a vessel lying alongside an installation, a steel bar about 1 metre long and 3 centimetres in diameter was seen to fall on to the deck from either the roof of a container or from overhanging scaffolding on the installation.
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