What happened A lifting saddle broke, causing a hose to swing and hit a crewman, causing an injury to his hand. The incident occurred at completion of cement pumping between […]
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Safety Events
Dropped Object – Crane auxiliary block dropped from crane boom
What happened Two sub-contracted crane technicians were mobilised to the vessel to inspect the pipelay system 15Te crane before a load and rock test of the crane took place. Following […]
Crane wire parted during offshore operations
What happened? A concrete mattress was being deployed as part of the construction of a pipeline crossing. As the load was swung outboard and before it entered the water, the […]
Bypassing safety controls – violation of working at height requirements
What went wrong On a vessel in dry dock, painting of the the hull was ongoing, using the shipyard crane and a personnel basket. During this work process it was […]
MSF: Near miss – potential dropped object found on bundle of casing
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. […]
Stop work authority enforced – unsafe conditions, no appropriate lifting gear available
What happened A vessel received instructions to pick up an aviation fuel tank at an auxiliary platform. The Master tried to tie up to the platform but was not successful […]
NTSB: Overturning of the Liftboat Kristin Faye
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) of the United States has published Marine Accident Brief MAB 20-36 relating to the overturning of liftboat (small jack-up) Kristin Faye. Liftboats are three- […]
NTSB: Flooding, sinking and loss of tugboat Mangilao
What happened The National Transportation Safety Board of the United States (NTSB) has published a report entitled MAB 20-33 into the sinking of a tugboat. The tugboat, towed by another […]
LTI Incident – Crew Struck by Cargo During Lifting Operations
What happened During routine cargo operation on the main deck, crew were unlashing the load (an empty pipe container) when the crane operator lifted the load without warning. One crewman […]
Rigging failure – clump weight dropped to seabed
What happened? A clump weight used for anchoring a weather buoy was being deployed over the sea when the long link chain attached to the vessel crane hook failed resulting […]
Serious injury incurred while removing wire rope sling from a crane hook
A rigger sustained a fractured shoulder whilst removing a large diameter wire rope sling soft eye from the crane hook. During vessel mobilisation of deck equipment, crew were lifting a […]
Unsafe lifting operations
A member reports two incidences of unsafe lifting, which are worthy of note. Incident 1 Unsafe Lifting Operations By sub-contractor On a platform supply vessel (PSV) involved in demobilization operations […]
Lightning Conductor Fell – Dropped Object Near Miss
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 […]
Fall from the quayside into water
Whilst slinging a palleted water bag (load), a third-party contract worker who was assisting in the operation fell approximately 3 metres from the quayside into the water. The original, risk-assessed […]
Vessel gangway rolled off platform tower and fell to the quayside in high wind
What happened? During stormy weather, there were sudden and violent gusts of wind of greater than 50 knots, resulting in a vessel alongside being pushed off the quay. This resulted […]
Near miss: dropped clump weight
What happened? A clump weight fell approximately 30m to deck and landed around a metre to where a rigger was working. The incident occurred just after the boom of the […]
Chain hoist failure resulting in a serious near miss
What happened? During maintenance of a vessel’s main engine there was a requirement to remove the charge air cooler weighing 400kg. The third-party contractor who was tasked with the maintenance […]
Dropped load and failed chain
What happened? A chain link failed causing a load of over 260kg to fall 1.5m to deck. The incident occurred during transfer of a bundle of scrap cable, when a […]
High potential near miss dropped object
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 […]
Dropped object near miss – crane boom bumper stop falls off
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 […]
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