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Safety Flashes
IMCA safety flashes disseminate important information on incidents and potential hazards and the lessons learnt from them that can help prevent incidents occurring elsewhere in the industry.
Individual safety events are available individually online, tagged and searchable, while the traditional PDF collections are also available for download.
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Safety Events
LTI: Carbon Monoxide (CO) poisoning during Oxy-Acetylene brazing
What happened A crew member suffered from Carbon Monoxide (CO) poisoning during oxy-acetylene brazing. The incident occurred when the crew member was involved in the repair of a broken valve, […]
Electrolytic corrosion: failure of fire hose couplings
What happened During routine pressure/leak testing, a fire hose fitting failed at the neck of the stub inserted into the hose. As part of annual testing of the fire hydrant […]
Air hose connection failure
What happened An air supply hose on an air-driven tugger winch snapped out under pressure from the cam lock adapter. A main deck air-driven tugger winch supplied through a 5cm […]
Dropped objects in dry dock
A member reports two dropped object incidents during a vessel dry-dock, both with serious injury potential. Incident 1: What happened? During a thruster overhaul, the hold-back rigging for the steering […]
Uncertified lifting gear found in use
What happened A number of shackles and other lifting equipment were observed in use onboard a vessel with no certification or inspection reports available. Some equipment was colour coded by […]
High potential near miss: Uncontrollable movement of auxiliary whip line
What happened When starting up, a vessel main crane started behaving in an uncontrollable and potentially hazardous way. The block and hook were hoisted up to the sheave, when the […]
Single point failure resulting in a dropped object
What happened A small part weighing 0.3kg fell 20 meters from an OMC-160 wind speed and direction sensor installed on a vessel’s main mast. Two wind speed and direction sensors […]
Small fire following hot work
What happened On a member’s vessel alongside, a small fire started following hot work conducted by the client’s welding sub-contractors. The incident occurred during the welding of jumper stands on […]
LTI: finger injury during davit test
What happened A worker suffered a serious finger injury when his hand got caught between a painter rope under tension and the handrail. The incident occurred during testing of the […]
Near miss: pilot ladder – side rope failed
What happened Whilst undertaking pilot boarding operations during the hours of darkness, a side rope on the pilot ladder parted when it was being weight tested by the pilot. The […]
Diving instructor killed – incorrect valve threads
The Dutch Labour Inspectorate (Nederlandse Arbeidesinspectie) reports an incident in which a diving instructor was killed. The incident is reported here (in Dutch). What happened During a dive, the valve […]
Serious hand injury (MSF)
What happened The MSF reports in Safety Alert 22-12 an incident involving an inadvertent self-inflicted finger injury. This serious injury was sustained while someone was replacing a knife into its […]
Blocked emergency exit hatch
What happened An engine room emergency exit hatch could not be opened. The emergency exit hatch providing egress from the engine room to the vessel’s main deck on the starboard […]
Incorrect gangway rigging
What happened A member reports several cases of gangways being rigged incorrectly. Incident 1 What went wrong What was put right Lessons learned Incident 2 What went wrong A Platform […]
Lost ROV incident
What happened? An ROV got trapped inside the platform structure due to strong tidal current. Subsequently the tether was damaged, and the ROV lost power and telemetry. Attempts to free […]
Umbilical management – near miss
What happened A diver was working with the barge crane to remove two sleepers from under a newly installed 16” x 45 ft (40cm x 13.5m) repair spool. The crane […]
Safety Flashes – a summary of 2022
This is a summary of the 29 IMCA Safety Flashes published during 2022. All the published safety events or incidents are available on the IMCA website as individual web pages […]
Open toed shoes on an escalator (not work related)
What happened A member reports an incident in which someone got their leisure footwear (sandals) caught in an escalator and narrowly escaped a serious injury to their foot. Someone’s right […]
Near miss: load lifted without notice putting crew in the line of fire
What happened During cargo operation at an offshore installation, the deck foreman on the installation noticed that a sling was twisted while starting to heave up a cargo. An AB […]
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