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IMCA reports an incident in which there was a potential dropped object because of an unsecured door on a load. The incident took place when a flat pack spooler unit was being lifted from a vessel onto a platform. After an investigation was concluded, it revealed that the antiluce drop lock had no means of secondary retention during transportation.

As IMCA informs, during mooring operations, an Able Seaman (AB) jumped from the ship to the quayside to receive the mooring ropes. In his attempt, he slipped over the bulwark and fell over the side into the sea from a height of 1.75m. At that time, the gap between the vessel and the quay was 0.5-0.6m.

IMCA informs about an injury where a crewman got his feet trapped under the sliding step of an Ampelmann motion compensated telescopic gangway. The crewman did not sustain any life-threatening injuries. According to IMCA, the gap between the sliding step and the fixed part of the gangway on this system was large enough to trap the steel toecap of a regularly sized safety shoe/boot.

IMCA has published ‘Guidance to Identify DP System Components and their Failure Modes’. This document is additional to the Association’s current guidance on Dynamic Positioning. IMCA M 247 identifies the different components of a DP system and guides on how these systems might fail.

The International Marine Contractors Association, launches a new web-based method for collecting safety statistics from its contractor members. This will result in simpler, more timely reporting, and the ability to easily benchmark performance. IMCA supports that the easy completion and the ability to benchmark company performance will conclude in higher data submission rates than in the past.

IMCA published an accident report concerning a seafarer who was hit by a steel plate that bounced off the deck. The crew member was later sent to the hospital for a check up but returned to work the day after.

According to IMCA, during a trans-pooling of an umbilical, a tensioner pad fell from 11 m height and landed to the under-deck carousel, in a close distance to the deck supervisor and, luckily, no injury occurred.

According to IMCA, glow sticks when are not properly stored and exposed to high temperatures may break open. The chemical substance which makes them glow could be released from the stick and lead to chemical accidents. In combination with manufacture issues, the risk of such an accident could escalate even more.

According to IMCA, seamen made a complaint to the Chief Officer regarding the quality of the grinding discs. Namely, the discs only grinded one spot before disintegrating and pieces were flying. The discs looked like a normal grinding disc, but also bore the text ‘cutting’, leading to the conclusion that they were cutting discs.

IMCA published an accident report focusing on a crewmember that had a crucial injury when trying to move a mud agitator with unprotected blades. To this result, the seafarer got his leg injured and was given first aid onboard and onshore. Luckily, the seafarer returned to the vessel the same day.