07/31/2020
The UK HSE (Health and Safety Executive) has issued the following notice regarding the use of face masks designated KN95.

07/31/2020
Safety performance in the offshore renewable energy industry

07/24/2020
Cargo Ignited on Truck Bed During Transportation. There was a fire in the cargo on the back of a truck whilst moving materials from the warehouse to the vessel. Whilst in transit, the driver observed flames coming from the truck bed.

07/24/2020
Member of the public killed following unplanned movement of an unsecured load. The UK Health and Safety Executive (HSE) fined a company after it caused the death of a child when he was trapped between an unsecured pole and a fence.

07/24/2020
Person injured when leg slipped through floor hatch. During routine inspection of an engine room, someone slipped thro ugh a loose floor hatch plate and sustained a cut wound about 3 cm on the shin of his left leg.

07/24/2020
LTI: Loss of fingertip and nail. While crew were moving lashing materials (chains, shackles and turnbuckles) from the garage deck into a storage space, the bosun suffered a serious finger injury. The incident occurred as part of routine housekeeping activity on a vessel at anchor.

07/24/2020
Hydraulic sample extruder – finger laceration. Whilst using a hydraulic sample extruder in a laboratory, the technician caught and injured his finger between the Shelby tube and extruder ram while trying to stabilise the dolly.

07/24/2020
Finger injury caused by incorrectly secured console cover. An incorrectly secured console cover closed in an unplanned and unexpected way, trapping a crew member’s finger, which was injured. After completing a task on a raised working platform a technician was coming down the steps back down to the deck level.

07/13/2020
A CPR success story – “we saved a life that day”. An IMCA member reports that a crew member suffered several cardiac arrests in front of his crew mates. Immediately CPR was started, and the medic was alerted. The patient was resuscitated, but experienced subsequent cardiac events while awaiting medical air transport.

07/13/2020
MOB fatality: person fell between vessel and jetty. The UK Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) has published Accident Investigation Report 09/2020 into the death of the Master of dredging vessel Cherry Sand when he was crushed between the dredger and the jetty after he fell while attempting to step ashore to assist berthing the vessel in Rosyth, Scotland.

07/13/2020
MOB fatality from multi-cat. A member reports a man overboard fatality which occurred from a multi-cat engaged in shallow water construction in an inshore environment.

07/13/2020
Double man overboard resulting in one fatality. During preparations for disconnecting a tow tug which was moored to a barge in turn moored to the jetty, a crew member of the tow tug fell into water between the tow tug and the barge. A second crew member also fell into the water during attempts to rescue his colleague.

07/06/2020
Manhole opened and not correctly closed. During a safety round on deck prior to cargo operations it was noticed that a manhole had been opened in order to pump out ballast water to replace a faulty valve. The manhole cover or hatch nuts had been completely removed and the cover was only placed back on top and was left completely unsecured.

07/06/2020
MSF: Potential dropped objects – nets or tarps to cover cargo? Marine Safety Forum Safety Alert 20-04 describes a potential dropped object (PDO) during cargo operations. A wooden baton of the type often used to support covers attached to open topped Cargo Carrying Units (CCUs), was discovered jammed against the underside of a cargo basket.

07/06/2020
Safe use of FIBC (Flexible Intermediate Bulk Container). A FIBC containing 36 sand bags weighing approx. 25kg each was being lifted from the quayside to the vessel. As the load was lifted to approximately 1 metre, there was a routine inspection of the load to check the handle loops and that the base of the bag was OK before lifting.

07/06/2020
High potential incident: gantry hoist failure. An electrically powered gantry hoist failed whilst under load dropping cargo and lifting equipment to deck. The incident occurred during a lift of 500kg of palletised provisions onto the vessel.

07/06/2020
Leg entanglement from Tag Line during cargo operations. An AB got his leg entangled with a tag line during lifting operations. The incident occurred when a vessel was alongside a rig offloading cargo. The AB attached the aft tag line to a container, then laid out the tag line on deck and proceeded to inform the crane operator to lift the container.

06/23/2020
USCG: Automatic identification system (AIS) inaccuracies led to fatalities.

06/23/2020
Crewman fatally injured while stood on the stern ramp of Seatruck Progress.

06/23/2020
Man overboard from stinger. A member of the crew fell overboard through an opening in the stinger. The incident occurred with the vessel alongside in port.

06/23/2020
Trip and fall down hotel stairs causing serious wrist injury. Whilst engaged in business travel, an employee of one of our members slipped and fell when descending a hotel staircase. He sustained multiple fractures and dislocation of the left wrist.

06/23/2020
Fall From a Height into a Ballast Tank. A worker inside a ballast tank fell from height. The incident happened when a welder and two welder helpers were installing additional stiffeners on the inside of a water ballast tank.

06/12/2020
Serious incidents involving the weather. A member has published a safety notice designed to raise awareness with the number of serious weather related incidents which have occurred within their fleet over the last few months.

06/12/2020
Near miss/positive: crew exercised stop work on new gangway. A newly installed gangway was found inadequate and unsafe. After the first transfer test on the gangway, the Captain observed several unsafe conditions – a trip hazard and a minor hydraulic leak.

06/12/2020
Lifting basket with unsecured cargo which fell out. A cargo basket containing equipment was to be lifted from the vessel deck to an offshore installation.

06/12/2020
MSF: water based mud spill on deck. During routine mud transfer operations at an offshore installation the rig hose parted from the vessel’s manifold resulting in a release of approximately 2,500 litres of mud to the deck.

06/12/2020
Serious injury caused by high-pressure washer. A work team supervisor sustained a laceration to his upper right thigh caused by a high-pressure water jet.

June 1, 2020
UK HSE: Workers injured by unplanned release of mud slurry. An electricity power station company was prosecuted after three contractors were injured by a sudden release of water and sludge, while carrying out maintenance work.

June 1, 2020
Fire in the engine room. A vessel suffered a fire in the engine room. The incident occurred after the vessel was leaving port during the hours of darkness in calm weather.

June 1, 2020
Engine room fire – a small rag left after maintenance. There was a small fire in the engine room of a large multi-engined vessel. Work had been carried out the previous night to replace a sheared bolt on a turbocharger on one of the engines.

June 1, 2020
Inadvertent activation of condensed aerosol fire extinguishing system leads to a fatality.

05/22/2020
Lightning Conductor Fell – Dropped Object Near Miss. 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 landed on the carousel bottom plate.

05/22/2020
Pedestal Drill Chuck Assembly Detached Causing Head Injury. A crewman was drilling a hole through a wooden plank using a benchtop heavy drill machine in the vessel’s engine room. The drill chuck assembly detached and hit the right side of his forehead resulting in a laceration above his right eyebrow.

05/22/2020
Fall from the Quayside into Water. Whilst slinging a palleted water bag (load), a third-party contract worker who was assisting in the operation fell approximately 3 metres from the quayside into the water.

05/22/2020

Sewage Spilled onto the Quayside. 30-40 litres of sewage water was spilled onto the quayside during a transfer operation from vessel to sewage truck. There was no discharge into the sea due to a contained concreted area on the quayside.

05/22/2020
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.

05/05/2020
COVID-19: positive observation – The local mooring department of a contractor member has enforced strict physical distancing in external areas for toolbox talks (TBT) and other operational meetings. Circle markings on the ground to indicate how far apart individuals should stand.

05/05/2020
Positive observation: Following vehicle cleaning and disinfection protocol an additional initiative to protect drivers and passengers from COVID-19 during the pandemic is the installation of protective plexiglass shields in all company shared vehicles.

05/05/2020
Positive observation: One of our members has installed a disinfecting tunnel providing an additional control measure in the fight against the spread of COVID-19 and other diseases. The disinfectant system is equipped with a motion-activated sprayer that will trigger misting and disinfects of any person who walks through it.

04/28/2020
Vessel gangway rolled off platform tower and fell to the quayside in high wind. During stormy weather, there were sudden and violent gusts of wind of greater than 50 knots, resulting in a vessel alongside being pushed off the quay. This resulted in the gangway rolling off the platform tower.