Tag: fatality onboard

A Hong Kong-registered bulk carrier loaded with 55,000 metric tonnes of nickel ore sailed close to a tropical storm with a maximum wind speed of 40 knots while en route. The vessel eventually capsized and sank. As a result, ten crew members went missing. Hong Kong MARDEP shared lessons learned from the incident. 

Missouri prosecutors filed state charges against three employees involved in a 2018 boat accident on a lake in the tourist town of Branson in which 17 people lost their lives.

While recovering the starboard accommodation ladder onboard a Hong Kong-flagged general cargo ship, a deck officer fell overboard from the last few steps of the ladder and was later found dead. Hong Kong MARDEP shared lessons learned from the incident.

Three decades after the sinking of the ferry Estonia on September 28th 1994, authorities from Estonia and Sweden have started new investigations on the wreck.

One seafarer died and another one was injured following the failure of an overhead monorail provision crane aboard an RMI-flagged 2014-built ultramax bulk carrier, the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) informed. 

While the cargo vessel FIRST AI was mooring off Kyoto in September 2019, a boatswain died as his head was trapped in a hatch cover panel while performing hatch cover closing duty. JTSB issued an investigation report on the accident.

In its transportation statistics 2020, TSB Canada recorded a total of 262 marine accidents (resulting directly from the operation of a ship), down from the 2019 total of 267 and below the 10-year average of 289. In 2020, the proportion of shipping accidents was 84% of marine accidents, comparable to the previous 10-year average of 82%.

One crew member is reportedly missing after the container ship MSC MESSINA suffered a fire in its engine room while underway in the Indian ocean in the afternoon of 24 June. 

Transport Malta issued an investigation report on the fatal burn injury of a fitter onboard the bulk carrier 'Iolcos Unity' in June 2020. The incident occurred as the fitter was using an angle grinder which generated sparks on its covered-with-oil overall. 

Hong Kong MARDEP shared lessons learned from a fatal fall onboard a Hong Kong-registered bulk carrier. The Bosun and a sailor used the provision crane as a movable working platform to paint the underdeck area above. Due to adverse weather, the crane suddenly moved towards the shipside quickly and they had to jump down to escape.