A member reports two incidences of unsafe lifting, which are worthy of note. Incident 1 Unsafe Lifting Operations By sub-contractor On a platform supply vessel (PSV) involved in demobilization operations […]
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Safety Events
Lightning Conductor Fell – Dropped Object Near Miss
What happened? A lightning conductor mounted on top of a service crane came free from its mounting and dropped 75 meters. The conductor fell through the deck carousel hatch and […]
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 […]
Uncontrolled movement of retractable gangway
What happened? During lifting up and securing of a vessel’s retractable gangway, the spring latch of the lifting device disconnected causing an uncontrolled release of the holding wire, and the […]
Hand injury during lift operations
What happened? During a mechanical lifting operation using a mobile crane, the crane was required to move and set up at a new location. The crane outrigger stabiliser pads (1.2T […]
Grease itself is a dropped object!
What happened? During crane operations on an offshore vessel, quantities of grease fell from the crane block and landed on deck. The incident occurred in daylight, when a wellhead head […]
Near miss – two dropped objects (MSF)
What happened? The Marine Safety Forum (MSF) has published Safety Alert 19-08 relating to two dropped object incidents on the same vessel. Both events had the potential to cause major […]
Mattress beam landed very close to divers
What happened? During subsea lifting operations with divers in the water, a large mattress lifting beam was lowered inappropriately close to the divers. The two saturation divers were deployed on […]
Crane anti-two block securing wire failure
What happened? During routine lifting activities, a vessel crane’s (auxiliary) anti-two block (A2B) suspension wires failed, causing the A2B weight assembly to fall along the crane wire to the crane […]
Dropped flexible pipe incident
What happened? A member notes an incident during lifting operations, resulting in dropped flexible pipe. A 6tonne riser test piece (RTP) was being lifted in preparation for load testing the […]
Dropped load (bottled water) during lifting operations
What happened? During a routine lifting operation, a pallet laden with about 1 tonne of bottled water, slid off the pallet lifting forks and fell around 8 metres to the […]
High potential near miss – storage box dropped from forklift
What happened? A storage box weighing approximately 770kg fell 4m from the forks of a forklift truck. The incident occurred when storage boxes containing items of equipment located on an […]
Rigger sustains injury to left hand
What happened? A rigger was struck by a lever hoist hook, which led to a restricted work case. The incident occurred during lifting operations and had the potential to have […]
Near miss: crewman struck on head by crane hook (Marine Safety Forum)
The Marine Safety Forum (MSF) has published Safety Alert 18-26, in which an AB was struck on the head by a crane hook during routine deck cargo transfer operations. A […]
Near miss: winch wire snagged and released suddenly
What happened? During drilling operations on a land-based drilling rig, the thimble within the hard eye of the winch wire momentarily caught (snagged) on the edge of the drill rig […]
Fatal injury during lifting operations – Maersk Interceptor
What happened? The Norwegian Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) has completed its investigation of the fatal accident on 7 December 2017 on Maersk Interceptor, a jack-up facility, in which one person […]
Unsafe backloading of equipment
What happened? Project related equipment was returned to a yard in a half-height container. The equipment came from a project-chartered vessel which had been demobilised at a nearby port. As […]
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 […]
LTI – rigger tripped over quayside obstacle in the dark and fell
What happened? A rigger walking along the quayside tripped over an obstacle, and in the resulting fall suffered fractures to both wrists, a bone in his hand and his elbow. […]
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