Lessons learned: Do not rush when using knives
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.
Read moreIMCA 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.
Read moreAt 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.
Read moreA 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.
Read moreIMCA provides a summary of its 29 IMCA Safety Flashes published during 2022, noting that they covered 140 individual incidents or events.
Read moreAccording to BSEE, a contractor was injured by a severe flash fire while performing “hot work” on a pipeline skid during decommissioning activities.
Read moreAs 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.
Read moreUK 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.
Read moreAs 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.
Read moreAround a dozen people were injured after an explosion onboard a ferry in Myanmar’s commercial hub of Yangon, on December 18.
Read moreIn its latest Safety Digest, in which UK MAIB provides lessons learned from incidents in the maritime industry, hot water was deflected upwards off the tundish, scalding the second engineer's (2/E) face.
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