What happened? During crane operations on an offshore vessel, quantities of grease fell from the crane block and landed on deck. The incident occurred in daylight, when a wellhead head […]
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What happened? During crane operations on an offshore vessel, quantities of grease fell from the crane block and landed on deck. The incident occurred in daylight, when a wellhead head […]
What happened? The Marine Safety Forum (MSF) has published Safety Alert 19-08 relating to two dropped object incidents on the same vessel. Both events had the potential to cause major […]
What happened? During subsea lifting operations with divers in the water, a large mattress lifting beam was lowered inappropriately close to the divers. The two saturation divers were deployed on […]
What happened? During routine lifting activities, a vessel crane’s (auxiliary) anti-two block (A2B) suspension wires failed, causing the A2B weight assembly to fall along the crane wire to the crane […]
What happened? A member notes an incident during lifting operations, resulting in dropped flexible pipe. A 6tonne riser test piece (RTP) was being lifted in preparation for load testing the […]
What happened? During a routine lifting operation, a pallet laden with about 1 tonne of bottled water, slid off the pallet lifting forks and fell around 8 metres to the […]
What happened? A storage box weighing approximately 770kg fell 4m from the forks of a forklift truck. The incident occurred when storage boxes containing items of equipment located on an […]
What happened? A rigger was struck by a lever hoist hook, which led to a restricted work case. The incident occurred during lifting operations and had the potential to have […]
The Marine Safety Forum (MSF) has published Safety Alert 18-26, in which an AB was struck on the head by a crane hook during routine deck cargo transfer operations. A […]
What happened? During drilling operations on a land-based drilling rig, the thimble within the hard eye of the winch wire momentarily caught (snagged) on the edge of the drill rig […]
What happened? The Norwegian Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) has completed its investigation of the fatal accident on 7 December 2017 on Maersk Interceptor, a jack-up facility, in which one person […]
What happened? Project related equipment was returned to a yard in a half-height container. The equipment came from a project-chartered vessel which had been demobilised at a nearby port. As […]
What happened? A crewman was hit by a steel plate bouncing off the deck after it fell 14m from a load after a magnet failed. The incident occurred when shaped […]
What happened? A rigger walking along the quayside tripped over an obstacle, and in the resulting fall suffered fractures to both wrists, a bone in his hand and his elbow. […]
What happened? A wooden pallet broke whilst it was being lifted during mobilisation, causing its load to fall to deck. There was no injury to personnel nor was there any […]
The Marine Safety Forum (MSF) have published Safety Alert 18-19, in which a hoisted 10ft container became snagged on the bridle of a backloaded tote tank. A ‘stop stop stop’ […]
What happened? The Marine Safety Forum (MSF) has published Safety Alert 18-20 on Potential Dropped Objects in Frame Pockets. When preparing a heavy lift to be discharged from an offshore […]
What happened? A floodlight fell from its position on the knuckle boom of the vessel’s crane. The floodlight arrangement was supported on a stainless steel bracket, comprising a bar and […]
What happened? During inspection of the vessel crane, it was noted that a steel spacer plate had become partially detached due to corrosion forming behind the plate. The plate had […]
Note: This incident is still under investigation. What happened? During the removal of a spool at 172msw, divers were engaged in lift bag operations to relocate the spool to a […]
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