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IMCA shared lessons learned from a serious injury onboard, after a service engineer fell off a radar antenna. The incident highlighted issues related to poor communication, weak safety culture and insufficient job preparation. 

The Captain and Chief Officer of an Isle of Man flagged bulk carrier, gave false information to Maritime NZ after a crewman passed out because of lack of oxygen in the ship’s poorly-ventilated hold. They were later found guilty and were fined $13,500 and $ 4,050 respectively.

IMCA presents an accident onboard a vessel, when one crewmember suffered a hairline fracture to his hand when trying to stop a mooring line. In general, mooring operations have caused many accidents in the industry; Mooring handling hides many dangers as this duty requires a good technique initially in lifting the heavy eye of the rope, followed by a good pulling technique.

In light of IMCA's Safety Flash, a service engineer was seriously injured after falling off a radar antenna; The casualty took place when two service engineers were on a vessel to install an electronics board in a radar antenna.

The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) launched its preliminary report into the circumstances regarding the fire on board the dive boat Conception, which eventually sank on September 2 off Santa Cruz Island. 34 people died, making the incident one of the deadliest civilian marine casualties in recent US history.

The Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board issued a statement according to which the operations on a Transocean-owned drilling rig operating for Suncor Energy offshore Canada were suspended following the injury of an offshore worker. 

As the vehicle carrier 'Golden Ray' capsized in St. Simons Sound, Brunswick, Georgia, four of its crewmembers went missing; Thus, the USCG, along with the help of the vessel's master and the chief engineer, are conducting search and rescue operations to stabilize the vessel and find the remaining crew.

IMCA discusses an accident when a fire dust cap was blown off by pressure from the line and hit the wall 10 metres away. The pressured dust cap although caused a small fraction to the wall, it didn't injure any of the crewmembers.

The Bahamas Maritime Authority issued a new Safety Alert to inform and share lessons learned on a hand injury of a crewman attempting to secure a crane’s auxiliary block. The Authority concluded that the planning for the work activity was inappropriate and the risks were not appropriately identified. 

The number of major incidents in the Port of Singapore has fallen over the last 10 years, with less than 0.12 major incidents per 100,000 vessel movements in 2018, which is a decrease from 0.8 in 2009. Dr Lam Pin Min, Senior Minister of State for Transport and Health said that the use of technology and digitalization will be able to further improve maritime safety by providing seafarers better access to crucial safety-related information.