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A member has reported an incident on an offshore construction vessel in which a piece of wood from the main crane boom rest cradle became detached from the cradle and […]

A member has reported an incident in which a large piece of equipment fell over 20 metres to the deck. A top section of an antenna, approximately 4m in length […]

A member has reported an incident in which a remotely controlled vehicle (ROV) and its tether management system (TMS) were dropped to the seabed following failure of the umbilical termination. […]

A member has reported an incident in which an object was dropped whilst being lowered to divers on the seabed. The vessel was working in waters over 100m depth when […]

During some pipe work on the deckhead of a production platform, a spanner weighing 1.4kg was dropped from the work place and fell 6 metres, landing only one metre from […]

There have been several incidents where tools and equipment have been left inside scaffold tubes that are part of a scaffold structure. The picture is from an incident where a […]

During delivery of an offshore container to a warehouse, a large metal object was observed lying on top of the container by a worker on a higher floor. The object […]

A member has reported finding the ‘job-made’ lifting hook shown below, rough cut from half inch steel plate, during a routine safety check at a vendor’s shipyard. The lifting hook […]

What happened An air bottle exploded on a lifeboat causing significant damage. The damage was discovered during a periodic inspection of an offshore platform which had been shut-in and had […]

What happened During the transportation of equipment, a load became free of its single retention strap and fell off a lorry onto a public road. The load fell off while […]

What happened? During recovery of an ROV system, the ROV TMS (Tether Management System) experienced a problem latching to the LARS (Launch and Recovery System). The umbilical was damaged directly […]

What happened During pipelay activities onboard a vessel, a welding fume extraction hood (which weighed 215kg) fell onto a work station below. A crew member working in the welding station […]

What happened On a CTV (Crew Transfer Vessel), a crew member’s work restraint lanyard became entangled in a hook and wire sling, and the crew member was lifted off the […]

What happened? After a routine lift had been landed over the stern to a CTV foredeck, the CTV crew member gave the signal to raise the crane hook. While the […]

What happened? A section of Glass Reinforced Plastic (GRP) grating on a vessel dislodged and dropped to sea. The incident occurred when a welder was on the grating passing a […]

What happened The UK Health and Safety Executive (HSE) have issued a press release relating to a case where an employee was severely injured after batteries weighing at least 300kg […]

What happened The Marine Safety Forum published Safety Alert 23-20 relating to someone getting an eye injury as a result of getting chemicals in their eye. The incident occurred when […]

What happened The UK HSE has fined an offshore drilling company after the catastrophic collapse of a crane boom. See here for the press release. The HSE reported: “Nobody was […]