Safety Flashes

When wiring up the trailing lead of a piece of ROV equipment to a junction box on the ship’s electrical supply, an electrician incorrectly identified the trailing lead wires and […]

During a vessel ROV mobilisation in port, a subcontractor’s 3-phase hydraulic power unit was connected to the vessel’s power supply. The unit was energised without either inspecting the third party […]

Recently a serious accident occurred at a contractor’s facility when the drive chain of a crawler crane failed, causing parts to fly about injuring an employee. The American Skyhorse Crane […]

Set out below is Safety Notice 2/97 issued by the UK Health and Safety Executive (HSE). It should be self explanatory. Failure of Transmission Systems Components on Aker 50-15 Offshore […]

During routine maintenance on a Slingsby TA9 seven function manipulator jaw assembly, while removing the finger retaining bolts, a bolt with 80% of the thread exposed as it was being […]

A technician was knocked unconscious when he was struck on the head by a cable. The incident occurred when cable being used to pull the beginning of a 23″ pipeline […]

Set out below is a safety notice issued at the end of 1997 by UWI Circle Ltd of Aberdeen, UK. It should be self explanatory, but if you have any […]

An incident occurred on a vessel which was conducting an anchor handling operation. A sudden tensioning and de-tensioning of the tugger wire occurred, probably due to the vessel rising or […]

A fire occurred when paint ignited in a bulk storage area on a vessel due to welding being carried out on the main deck. The firewatcher for the area had […]

Three separate incidents have been reported involving container double and personnel doors. A control van personnel door fell off whilst someone was trying to open it; fortunately the individual jumped […]

A near miss incident recently occurred when there was an explosion of the resin/wire plug in a Wirelock ROV umbilical lifting/docking cone. Heat, applied using an oxy acetylene torch to […]

On a semi-submersible drilling unit, the port-aft column was opened up to allow a team to gain entry for visual inspection of an instrument on the cross-tubular section. Access to […]

One of our members has informed us that the suppliers of HyFlex fire extinguishers have advised them that there is a potential problem with their DDC fire extinguishers. Following a […]

An IMCA Member reported that during mobilisation a hydraulic jack dropped onto the main deck while work was being carried out on the straightener in the crane tower. The Contractor […]

A third party fitted the wrong regulator on a Nitrox cylinder despite the fact that the quad was fitted with plastic shields marked ‘Diving Gas’. The regulator was of a […]

Two divers, when disconnecting a flange on a pipeline, encountered what appeared to be water escaping from the flange. The fluid was subsequently found to contain toxic volatile condensate compounds. […]

We have been advised of a recent accident when a ROV Technician working on a Tether Management System lost some fingers in a chain drive mechanism. The company subsequently designed […]