Tag: IMCA

IMCA has issued a safety flash, drawing lessons learned from an incident in which during lifting operations on a vessel, a hydraulic release shackle pin opened on its own. 

IMCA has issued a safety flash to draw lessons learned from an incident where a rescue boat suffered a catastrophic structural failure whilst unattended on the davit.

IMCA presents an incident which occurred onboard a vessel when sparks from hot work on the deck fell into a thruster room. 

IMCA presents an incident in which during the emergency recovery of an ROV, a worker's finger was partially amputated while cutting a rope securing the ROV hook to the crane wire.

IMCA highlights lessons learned from an incident during pipelaying operations, where a wooden packing block fell more than 10 meters from the pipelay tower and landed on the workstation floor.

IMCA draws lessons learned from an incident in which a sheave and clump weight fell during wind turbine installation, nearly injuring workers and damaging equipment.

IMCA has issued a Safety Flash describing an incident of main crane failure during load test in which the crane main block wires broke.

IMCA has issued a Safety Flash, describing an incident in which an AC cover from a capstan electrical cabinet fell about 1.7 meters on a pipelay tower. 

IMCA has issued a Safety Flash to draw lessons learned from an incident in which fire occurred in the engine room of a vessel during operations.

IMCA has issued a Safety Flash, describing an incident in which during sea trials following a docking period, smoke and fire were observed coming from the turbocharger flange to the exhaust manifold of one of the engines.