What happened IOGP have released Safety Alert 334 relating to a dropped object incident during drilling operations on a Jack-up Mobile Offshore Drilling Unit. Following running of the completion in […]
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Safety Events
Process Safety Fundamentals – IOGP / Step Change
Step Change in Safety https://www.stepchangeinsafety.net/ has created a “Safety Moment” based on IOGP’s Process Safety Fundamentals with the inclusion of relevant incident examples. Whilst not all of the incidents occurred […]
Explosion – hot work in a flammable atmosphere (Transport Malta)
The Marine Safety Investigation Unit (MSIU) of Transport Malta has published Safety Investigation Report 05/2022 relating to an explosion on a tanker following use of an angle grinder on deck […]
MSF: Manual Handling Injury During Bulk Hose Operations
What happened The Marine Safety Forum (MSF) has published Safety Alert 22-07 regarding an incident where a crewman was injured during hose handling operations. The incident occurred when a vessel […]
Maintenance and painting – two incidents
What happened A member reports two incidents in which something went wrong owing to failures in the maintenance process. Incident 1: Material failure during lowering of lifeboat During lowering of […]
MAIB: Loss of containers overboard – task seen as routine
The UK Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) has completed a preliminary assessment into an incident where 34 containers were lost overboard. What happened On 31 October 2020, 34 containers were […]
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 […]
MAIB: Blockage of fixed CO2 fire extinguishing system pilot hoses
The UK Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) has published Safety Bulletin 1/2022 into a fire on board a roll-on/roll-off cargo ship in September 2021. What happened A fire broke out […]
Subsea transponder wire parted
What happened A tripod positioning transponder wire parted from the tripod framework whilst the vessel was repositioning and needed to re-plumb the transponder. No assets were close by at time […]
Diver experienced an air flow restriction
What happened At the beginning of an air dive at 23msw, a diver experienced an air flow restriction. The system used was considered as a Mobile Surface Supplied System, the […]
COBRA System – Hose coupling cross threaded
What happened During diving operations, diver 1’s right-hand COBRA hose had a “champagne” leak coming from the connection at the hat. The diver was instructed to return to the bell […]
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 […]
UK HSE: worker died following fall from crane platform
The UK Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has prosecuted a company after an electrician died in a fall of approximately eight metres when an access panel on the raised walkway […]
USCG: Lithium battery fire
The United States Coast Guard (USCG) has published Safety Alert 01-22 relating to a Lithium battery fire in a freight container whilst en route to a port for trans-shipment to […]
USB power bank (Lithium battery) fire
What happened A crew member on a vessel was inside his cabin bedroom when he heard a popping sound in his dayroom. Upon investigating he noticed the USB battery bank […]
MAIB Safety Digest 1/2022
The UK Marine Accident Investigation Branch has published Safety Digest – Lessons from Marine Accident Reports 1/2022, which draws the attention of the marine community to some of the lessons […]
UK HSE: worker falls from height during oil platform decommissioning
The UK Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has prosecuted a civil engineering company after a worker suffered life threatening injuries after falling 15 metres when a platform he was working […]
MSF: Unsafe Cargo Transfer Using Pallets
The Marine Safety Forum (MSF) reports in Safety Alert 22-06 that an MSF member reported two separate incidents during deck cargo transfer operations involving pallets. What happened Incident #1: Lifting […]
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