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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
What happened After completing work, a small mooring (pilot) boat returned to the jetty. The AB began to secure the forward spring line of the mooring boat. The pilot being […]
What happened While working on deck, a crew member suffered a pinch injury to his right hand baby finger, resulting in a distal fracture to the tip of the finger […]
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