The United States Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) has published Safety Alert #446 relating to an injury caused by unsafe crane working practices. What happened A lead mechanic […]
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Safety Events
MAIB: mv Teal Bay mooring fatality
The UK Marine Accident Investigation Branch has published Report 9/2022 relating to a mooring deck fatality on board a cargo vessel in August 2021. Of interest in that this may […]
Focus on third-party dropped objects
What happened A member reports a significant increase in the number of dropped objects at third-party premises. The dropped object incidents have included many high potential near miss dropped objects […]
Serious injury during mooring operations: rope parted
What happened The Marine Safety Investigation Unit of Transport Malta has published Safety Investigation Report 10/21 into a serious injury which occurred during the mooring of a chemical tanker of […]
LTI: person struck by uncontrolled swing in chain
What happened An anchor chain swung unexpectedly across the deck and hit a crew member, causing an injury to his foot resulting in an LTRI. Anchors were being pulled over […]
LTI: fractured finger during anchor handling
What happened? A crew member suffered a serious finger injury when he got his finger trapped. The incident occurred when a vessel had been installing mooring elements, suction anchors and […]
Cook’s arm scalded while removing food from oven
What happened At a meal time the chief cook opened the upper part of a combined oven to remove a tray of rice that was being kept heated. The tray […]
Personal injury – burns from hot engine oil to body and face
CHIRP Maritime, an industry charity facilitating confidential incident reporting from seafarers, has published its Annual Digest 2021, which includes a number of events and incidents of interest to IMCA members. […]
Fall leading to serious personal injury
What happened A crew member suffered a fall leading to concussion and other serious injuries. The incident happened when he was single-handedly trying to hold and manoeuvre a drill tool […]
High potential incident – Foot trapped under ram cylinder
What happened A person almost had his foot crushed by a ram cylinder on a pipeline coating machine. The incident occurred at a spoolbase, during the application of pipe joint […]
LTI: Diver suffered crush injury to finger
What happened A diver sustained a crush injury to his finger. The incident occurred when a diving support vessel was working on a decommissioning project, and the dive team were […]
Accidental release of free-fall lifeboat
What happened The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) has published safety investigation report M20P0353 relating to the accidental release of a free-fall lifeboat from a bulk carrier. The incident […]
IOGP: Squeezed hand due to unintentional activation of winch
What happened IOGP has published Safety Alert #336 relating to a squeezed hand due to the unintentional activation of a winch. A crane operator stood by a control panel to […]
Fatal crush incident between platform supply vessel and fast rescue craft (2012)
This is an old incident which occurred ten years ago in Aberdeen. The initial Marine Accident Investigation Branch report here was brought to members’ attention as IMCA SF 04/13 Fatal […]
Near miss: Floor Plate fell from Main Mast during storm
What happened A floor plate fell from the main mast to the deck during a storm. At the time there were violent storm force winds of 55 to 60 knots […]
Riggers injured while disconnecting rigging
What happened Three riggers were injured whilst removing rigging from a load of timber pads after they had been backloaded from the vessel to a cargo barge. The barge and […]
Communications: LTI finger injury during lifting operations
What happened During demobilization lifting operations, a rigger’s right ring finger was crushed between the crane hook and a lifting eye. A vessel was demobilizing with a third party crane […]
Riggers struck/trapped by pipe section
What happened A vessel crane was lifting two 16 inch pipes of 24.4m length from a supply vessel to the pipelayer conveyor system. The second pipe section when being lowered […]
Stored energy release: Two fatalities with tyres (IOGP)
An IOGP member reports two separate incidents, both with fatal outcomes and related to maintenance/changing of tyres on vehicles. Whilst not strictly marine related, the incidents represent opportunities to highlight […]
Line of fire: pinched finger between door and frame
What happened An ROV operator suffered a serious injury, after their finger was pinched between the door frame of an ROV control van and the door as it swung closed. […]
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