What happened The UK Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) has issued Safety Bulletin SB1/2020 highlighting a potentially serious hazard, associated with condensed aerosol firefighting suppressant particles after a fatal accident […]
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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 […]
Fall from Height Leading to Injury
During work to change a wire on an FRC davit, a crewman lost his footing, slipped and fell 2.5m to deck below. At the end of the operation, the bosun […]
Basket snagged on ship’s structure
What happened? The Marine Safety Forum (MSF) has published Safety Alert 19-14 relating to an incident whereby a basket snagged on the ships structure causing damage to the vessel and […]
Unsafe lifting operations – potential dropped object
What happened? The Marine Safety Forum (MSF) has published Safety Alert 19-15 relating to a potential dropped object during unsafe lifting operations. An observation was recorded during a routine vessel […]
Wrapped cargo slipped during loading and fell
What happened? A large load weighing over six tonnes was dropped during loading operations. The item was a hot air duct. The centre of gravity (COG) of the load and […]
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 […]
Coronavirus Outbreak
With the ongoing international response to the new coronavirus outbreak (often referred to as 2019-nCOV), IMCA has reached out to our HSSE Committee and collated the following material that may […]
Poor condition of on-board equipment
What happened? During ‘safety walk arounds’ on one of our members’ vessels, certain equipment was seen to be in poor condition. In the first case, a fire blanket in the […]
MAIB: fatal man overboard incident whilst boarding tug
What happened? The UK Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) has published Accident Investigation Report 15/2019 into a fatality whereby a man fell overboard whilst boarding a tug at an oil […]
Worker fell into sea from gangway and drowned
What happened? The Singapore Tripartite Alliance for Workplace Safety and Health (WSH) has published Accident Notification 1920060 relating to a fatal fall from a gangway. This incident is still under […]
Explosion and fire on-board the chemical tanker Stolt Groenland
What happened? The UK Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) has published its interim report into a serious explosion and fire on-board the chemical tanker Stolt Groenland on 28 September 2019 […]
Near miss during helicopter operations
What happened? During helicopter flight boarding, a member of the crew crossed a hard barrier (stairway access chain) with a restriction sign and approached the flight deck from the aft […]
Water ingress during tropical storm
What happened? A vessel took on a significant amount of rainwater on the upper tween deck during an intense tropical storm. At the time of the storm, the forward crane […]
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 […]
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