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MSF: Near miss – potential dropped object during cargo operations
The Marine Safety Forum (MSF) has published Safety Alert 18-23, in which a 20ft basket was lifted during offshore cargo operations. The bridge team were later informed by the installation […]
High potential dropped object during lifting operations
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 […]
Pallet failure: High potential dropped object during lifting operations
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 […]
Potential dropped objects in frame pockets
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 […]
Dropped object: first aid injury during ROV maintenance
What happened? A tooling tray guide arm fell from an ROV skid rail slot and hit an ROV technician’s torso. He was beneath the ROV disconnecting the securing pin. Two […]
Two serious dropped object near miss
Two further dropped object cases have been reported recently, highlighting the extreme danger and potential for fatalities. Incident 1 A light and fitting on a third-party ship, weighing 8kg, fell […]
Dropped object: crane floodlight
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 […]
Pro-active intervention prevented high potential dropped objects
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 […]
Avoiding dropped objects
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Two dropped object near misses
Incident 1 – Wooden block laying in top of main hoist block During a voyage in good weather conditions, the Captain decided that the vessel would sail with the cranes […]
Two potential dropped objects (Marine Safety Forum)
The MSF have published two safety alerts relating to potential dropped objects from cargo operations. Incident 1: Missing protection cover becomes high potential dropped object Vessel crew found a twist […]
Near miss: potential dropped objects on a temporary buoys (TBMs)
What happened? A member has reported two near miss incidents involving potential dropped objects. The objects were left on top of a temporary buoyancy module (TBM) during the installation of […]
Missing protection cover becomes potential dropped object
The Marine Safety Forum (MSF) reports a near miss incident in which a small protective cover was lost from the deck of a vessel, and was later found in the […]
Dropped object – intermediate bulk container (IBC)
What happened? An intermediate bulk container (IBC) was dropped from a crane to deck. The incident occurred when a vessel crane was being used with a certified lifting device to […]
Galvanic corrosion causes dropped object – satellite dome fell from mast
What happened? A vessel was sailing in its assigned standby location during heavy weather when the VSAT satellite antenna dome mounted on the vessel’s mast fell off and landed in […]
High potential dropped object – satellite dome fell from mast
Note: this incident happened recently and is still under investigation. What happened? During a vessel transit in moderate seas, when the vessel was rolling and pitching, the Sat C dome […]
High potential near miss: dropped object – spark arrestor
What happened? An 18kg spark arrestor fell 16 metres from the funnel stack and landed on the FRC deck. No-one was injured but this was considered a serious near miss. […]
Potential dropped objects left on loaded cargo
What happened? A member reports numerous instances of potential dropped objects being found on containers and equipment being loaded from port and offshore facilities. What went wrong? What were the […]
Near miss: potential dropped object left on top of cargo
What happened? During deck cargo loading operations from a vessel to an offshore platform, two pieces of unsecured timber were inadvertently lifted from the vessel onto the platform, on top […]
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