Tag: injury onboard

A recent IMCA Safety Flash focuses on an incident in which, an LST (Life Support Technician) suffered a finger injury whilst operating the medical airlock (“Med-lock”) on a dive chamber.

A recent IMCA Safety Flash focuses on an incident in which, a deck engineer was torquing Grayloc clamp bolts connecting the gooseneck connector onto the second end of a flexible, using a manual torque wrench with a force multiplier attached.

A recent IMCA Safety Flash focuses on an incident in which an electrician was crushed and severely injured while working on a watertight door on a vessel, to provide lessons learned. 

A serious injury accident happened on board a Hong Kong registered bulk carrier when an Able Seaman 1 (AB1) fell onto the main deck from the top of a hatch coaming while carrying out cleaning and injured seriously.

In its latest part of the "Good Catch" series, the American Club provides lessons learned after a mariner fell on top of a modularized unit, suffering injuries.

The U.S. Coast Guard medevaced the Captain of a Panama-flagged bulk carrier approximately four miles offshore Southwest Pass, Louisiana, on February 6.

Fall incidents is the defined focus area for the Norwegian Maritime Authority (NMA) for 2023. According to NMA, 37% of all fatalities at sea in the last five years are fall-related. Nearly 600 people have been injured.

An explosion took place onboard a bulker while it was undergoing repair in Vietnam, on February 2, injuring eight shipyard workers.

USCG, along with NTSB and other agencies, are investigating several deaths and injuries of that took place onboard passenger vessels recently traveling in Antarctic waters.

A worker injured his finger seriously, as he caught his hand between a painter rope under tension and the handrail.