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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
Dropped object during cable trans-spooling
What happened? A roller weighing 5.7kg fell 8m and hit someone on the shoulder. This high potential incident occurred during alongside when a 69kV electrical cable was being trans-spooled ashore […]
Parted tag line caused damage during lifting operations
What happened A tagline parted under excess tension when moving a LiDAR buoy weighing 2.4 tonnes, causing the buoy to move in an unexpected way. The incident occurred when the […]
LTI: fingers severed by spinning fan blade
Hand and finger injuries Members continue to report hand and finger injuries. In last year’s safety statistics, 42% of LTIs reported by IMCA members involved injuries caused when workers got […]
Angle Grinder Finger Injury
Hand and finger injuries Members continue to report hand and finger injuries. In last year’s safety statistics, 42% of LTIs reported by IMCA members involved injuries caused when workers got […]
Crew member cut hand on broken glass during heavy weather
Hand and finger injuries Members continue to report hand and finger injuries. In last year’s safety statistics, 42% of LTIs reported by IMCA members involved injuries caused when workers got […]
Arm injury from metal skip cover
Hand and finger injuries Members continue to report hand and finger injuries. In last year’s safety statistics, 42% of LTIs reported by IMCA members involved injuries caused when workers got […]
MSF: Serious hand injury – high pressure air
Hand and finger injuries Members continue to report hand and finger injuries. In last year’s safety statistics, 42% of LTIs reported by IMCA members involved injuries caused when workers got […]
Dropped object: unsecured cargo inside box broke lose and fell
What happened A load of cargo being lifted onto a vessel destabilised and the cargo, weighing over 400kg, fell approx. 5m from the load onto the vessel deck. This high […]
Load lost from lorry on public road – inadequate securing of cargo
What happened During the transportation of equipment, a load became free of its single retention strap and fell off a lorry onto a public road. The load fell off while […]
MAIB: LTI – a wedge shattered causing injury
The UK Marine Accident Investigation Branch has published Safety Digest 1/2024, consisting of lessons from recent Marine Accident Reports. IMCA has reviewed the report and passes on to members some […]
UK HSE: Service lifts on offshore and onshore wind turbines
The UK Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has published Safety bulletin ED01-2024 on Service lifts in offshore and onshore wind turbines. What happened A wind turbine service technician suffered serious […]
Dropped welding fume extraction hood
What happened During pipelay activities onboard a vessel, a welding fume extraction hood (which weighed 215kg) fell onto a work station below. A crew member working in the welding station […]
MAIB: Person injured during lifting of compressor
The UK Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) has published Safety Digest 1/2024, consisting of lessons from recent Marine Accident Reports. IMCA has reviewed the report and passes on to members […]
Dropped lifting beam due to parted soft strop
What happened? During lifting operations a lifting beam weighing 4 Te was dropped from 50cm. The incident occurred when the lifting beam was being prepared for relocation for sea fastening […]
Stored energy – dislodged pin causes injury
What happened? During disconnection of a structure, a securing pin became stuck and could not be removed by hand. A hydraulic jack was employed to eject the pin which resulted […]
Hand and finger injuries
What happened Hand and finger injuries continue to be a significant theme in the incidents shared with IMCA by its members. This is a summary of two recent examples from […]
Injuries to the eyes and face
A member reports a number of incidents where crew have sustained injuries to the face. Eye and face injuries are always a serious matter. IMCA has relayed these incidents to […]
Trapped finger during mooring operations
What happened A deckhand injured the fingers on his right hand during mooring operations. The incident occurred when a vessel was headed to the pontoon to moor alongside her regular […]
Near miss – lid on ash trash barrel blown off due to hot ash
What happened? The lid on a waste container barrel blew off due to a build-up of excessive pressure within the waste container, caused by hot ash being deposited inside. The […]
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