A member has reported an incident in which a member of the shore staff injured his back due to the incorrect lifting of a heavy box from above head height. […]
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.
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Safety Events
RWC – Caught between: Finger smashed by tooling
IADC has recently published a safety alert in which a crewman suffered multiple fractures on his right ring finger. His hand was caught in the jaws of a tong latch […]
Line of fire injury – Man struck in face by hammer
The International Association of Drilling Contractors (IADC) has published a safety flash regarding an incident where a man was struck inadvertently in the face with a hammer, leading to ‘recordable’ […]
Cargo contamination causing LTIs during clean-up
A member has reported an incident in which there was contamination of liquid cargo on an offshore support vessel. The incident led to a week-long cleaning operation in which a […]
Older “Norfolk Range” powder extinguishers from before 2009
The UK Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has published the following alert regarding a fault in older ‘Norfolk Range’ large dry powder fire extinguishers, manufactured in the United Kingdom before […]
Spillage of methanol during cargo operations
A member has reported an incident in which the valve on a cargo tank was damaged, causing a leak of approximately 1000 litres of methanol. The incident occurred during cargo […]
Incidents involving poor crane operations
A member has reported a number of recent incidents resulting from poor crane operations on the part of the crews of platforms, barges and other installations operated by third parties, […]
Dropped objects fatalities: Workers struck by fallen loads during lifting operations
The Workplace Safety & Health Council of Singapore (WSH) has published two recent safety alerts regarding dropped object fatal incidents where workers have been struck and killed by falling loads […]
Electrician fatally electrocuted
An on-call electrician from the maintenance department was called and to check on a malfunction at a land-based oil installation. Besides checking the wells, he also went to the substation […]
Confined space fatality in shipyard
A rope access worker lost his life in a fatal incident at a fabrication site. The rope access worker was tasked to descend into a 90cm diameter and 30m depth […]
Dropped object near-miss: ROV wire rope
Crew were aligning an ROV to the guide wires on the starboard aft ROV deck of a vessel. While doing this the ROV dome contacted the forward guide wire and […]
Dropped object near-miss: Lifting
During the lifting of twelve lightweight steel plates (2m x 15-30cm) width from ground level to a vessel work platform at 35 m elevation, the load shifted during the transfer […]
Crewman struck by sling during anchor handling operations
An anchor had been transferred from one vessel to another. The crane operator slacked the sling so that it could be disconnected from the anchor. Two crewmen were walking towards […]
Electrical shock – Failure of isolations and barriers
A crew member was testing 240V cables as part of re-terminating a replacement motor. There was some isolation in place, with equipment partly out of the racks for testing by […]
Fall from height in a confined space
An employee fell from a ladder while descending into a well cellar to remove tie rods on the cellar wall. The initial report states that the injured person removed his […]
High potential incidents and fatalities in 2014 – International Association of Oil & Gas Producers (IOGP)
The International Association of Oil & Gas Producers (IOGP) has published two recent reports, one on 2014 high potential incidents and the other, on 2014 fatal incidents. Some of these […]
Fire hydrants fitted with incorrect coupling size
A member has reported an incident in which replacement fire hydrants were found to be fitted with incorrect coupling sizes, leading to them being incompatible with fire hose couplings. This […]
Lost time injury (LTI): Rigger struck by rigging under tension
A member has reported an incident in which a rigger was struck by a winch wire and sustained a fractured arm. The incident occurred during attachment and deployment of a […]
Grounding and flooding of ferry – complacency
The UK Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) has published a report into the grounding and flooding of the ro-ro (‘roll on roll off’) ferry Commodore Clipper in the Channel Islands […]
Thermal tunnel buoyancy when deployed subsea
A member has reported an incident in which buoyancy problems were encountered with equipment being deployed subsea. During light subsea construction operations conducted from a DSV, there was a requirement […]
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