Tag: injury onboard

The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) has launched an investigation into an incident at the Mongstad onshore facility on 18 January 2023, where one person fell from scaffolding.

CHIRP informs of an injury of a crew member, who while pulling the block forward to keep lines off the teak deck, was hoisted roughly 5m high.

IMCA provides lessons learned from an incident during which while a crew member was replacing a knife into its sheath, he cut his left Index finger.

At least one person died and four were injured, while seven are missing, due to a strong explosion in an oil tanker in the province of Samut Songkhram, in western Thailand, on January 17.

A US Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak aircrew, forward-deployed to Cold Bay, medically evacuated a mariner from a vessel 220 miles south of Dutch Harbor, Alaska, on January 11.

IMCA provides a summary of its 29 IMCA Safety Flashes published during 2022, noting that they covered 140 individual incidents or events. 

According to BSEE, a contractor was injured by a severe flash fire while performing “hot work” on a pipeline skid during decommissioning activities.

As the UK MAIB describes in its latest Safety Digest, the jet of water from the pressure washer lance penetrated the operator’s boot just behind the protective steel toecap.

UK MAIB published its report on the failure of a towline pennant and injury to the crew on board the tug Svitzer Mercurius in Southampton, England on 22 December 2019.

As the UK MAIB informs in its latest Safety Digest Edition for 2022, a shore worker used an accommodation ladder that was no longer in use for access, losing his balance and falling into the sea, sustaining injuries.