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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
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 […]
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 […]
LTI: worker lost his thumb
What happened? During drilling operations, a worker got his thumb caught under a part of a drill being lowered into position, resulting in the amputation of the thumb just above […]
Agitator started moving during mud tank cleaning – leading to injury
What happened? An agitator in a mud tank started up when an employee of a third-party contractor working in the tank was in the way. He was hit by the […]
Potential for diver injury operating a hand-held torque wrench
What happened? A diver was involved in a near miss that could have resulted in serious injury when he was asked to function an ROV valve override on a subsea […]
Damage and engine room flooding following contact by tugboat
What happened? A vessel suffered damage to the hull and engine room flooding due to contact with a tugboat during berthing. One of two tugs lost manoeuvrability and bumped into […]
High potential LTI: rigger ear injury
What happened? A crewman suffered a serious ear injury whilst removing some temporary rigging suspended from a crane gantry walkway. The incident could have been much more serious; the potential […]
LTI: finger injury caused while working with oil drums
What happened? A crewmember suffered a fracture to the right-hand ring finger whilst arranging 200l oil drums. The injured person was moving drums from a container using a pallet truck, […]
Potential for diver injury operating a hand-held torque wrench
What happened? A diver was involved in a near miss that could have resulted in serious injury when he was asked to function an ROV valve override on a subsea […]
High potential near miss: dropped object from turbine tower
What happened? At a wind turbine tower, chains weighing 17kg fell 84m. The incident occurred during the pulling through of a 66kv HV cable during installation. The surplus chain came […]
High potential dropped object – chains
What happened? A set of heavy chain links, or ‘Brothers’ used in lifting, fell from a turbine tower onto the front deck of a Crew Transfer Vehicle (CTV) below. The […]
High potential dropped objects from wind turbine Nacelle crane
What happened? Two lifting bags detached and fell from the crane hook on a wind turbine tower. The incident occurred during lowering operations at the end of an annual service […]
UK HSE: fatal injury following catastrophic failure of pressure test equipment
What happened? A 64-year-old worker was fatally wounded by shrapnel ejected from testing equipment. He was leak testing eight 1500 litre cylinders, by applying compressed air inside to create pressure. […]
Dropped object from crane
What happened? A composite block forming the end stop topping of a crane fell 20m from the crane to deck. The incident occurred after a Suez Canal transit, when it […]
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 […]
There’s something in my eye!
What happened? A welder reported to the Chief Officer that he had got something in his eye. The welder had been welding closed ballast tank manhole covers before breaking for […]
Failure of life raft securing strap
What happened? A life raft from the starboard forward life raft station made an unplanned deployment into the sea. The incident occurred in early afternoon with calm seas and clear […]
Vessel hit and destroyed fender
What happened? A vessel collided with the quay, destroying the fenders. The vessel picked up the pilot and proceeded towards the harbour. The wind was SSW 4-5 with good visibility. […]
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