Safety Flash: Mobile concrete placing boom overturn incidents
In December 2021, a concreter suffered serious injuries including a cervical spinal fracture and lacerations to his head and body after being struck by a mobile concrete placing boom at a residential construction site. The concreter was part of a…
Safety Flash: Not Following Work permit and Isolation Procedure
What happened in this Safety Flash: An electrician installed fuses on a 930V DC electrical system while the system was live. Under deck, carousels were mechanically and electrically isolated as a precaution for maintenance work. Several other important vessel systems…
Safety Flash: Floorman arm pinned by Pipe Handling Equipment
What happened The drilling crew was tripping the drill string into the primary well with two floormen positioned in the fingerboard area to spot/open fingers manually as required. The rig’s pipe handling equipment (PHE) was being used to transfer stands…
Safety Flash: Suspension Trauma
What happened For the purpose of a rescue at height drill, a person on the main deck suspended himself 1,5 meters from the deck in a safety harness with a ladder stand-by, while crew gathered on the bridge. After contacting…
Safety Flash: Fatality: explosive failure of corroded fire extinguisher
What happened A person was killed when there was a catastrophic explosive failure of a corroded fire extinguisher. The incident occurred when the person was discharging a corroded handheld cartridge-type, dry chemical powder fire extinguisher which had been condemned during…
Safety Flash: Crewman fell to his death through faulty grating
The United States’ Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) has published BSEE Panel Report 2021-001 into a fatal fall from a platform in the Gulf of Mexico in 2019. What happened A night shift production operator died when he fell into…
Safety Flash: Fatal accident during cargo operations on Karina C
The UK Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) has published an accident investigation report into a fatal crush incident during lifting operations on the general cargo vessel Karina C What happened? The second officer of the general cargo vessel Karina C was fatally injured…
Safety Flash: Overturning of the Lifeboat Kristin Faye
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) of the United States has published Marine Accident Brief MAB 20-36 relating to the overturning of lifeboat (small jack-up) Kristin Faye. Liftboats are three- or four-legged, self-propelled, self-elevating vessels typically servicing Gulf of Mexico offshore facilities (such…
Safety Flash: Short circuit on 440v AC bus bars-arc flash
What happened? A crewman was doing electrical work on a 440v power distribution panel (PDP) when a loose earth bonding cable made contact with a live 440v bus bar causing a short circuit and an arc flash. Whilst the crewman…
Safety Flash: Towing Fatality
In July 2020, a Prince Edward Island worker was fatally injured when struck by an airborne broken chain. An excavator was being used to try to tow the loader, which was stuck in soft soil. The two pieces of machinery…
Safety Flash: Unsafe lifting operations
A member reports two incidences of unsafe lifting, which are worthy of note. Incident 1 Unsafe Lifting Operations By sub-contractor On a platform supply vessel (PSV) involved in demobilization operations alongside, the crane operator attempted to lift a winch frame…
Safety Flash: Electric Shock Resulting in Burn
What happened? An ROV technician received an electric shock to his left arm beneath the elbow, resulting in a burn. ROV personnel were working in the technical workshop completing a non-electrical related task, bleeding air on top of the HP…
Safety Flash: LTI- Loss of Finger Tip and Nail
What happened? While the crew was moving lashing materials (chains, shackles, and turnbuckles) from the garage deck into a storage space, the bosun suffered a serious finger injury. The incident occurred as part of routine housekeeping activity on a vessel…
Safety Flash: Explosion And Fire Onboard The chemical Tanker STOLT Greenland
What happened? The UK Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) has published its interim report into a serious explosion and fire on-board the chemical tanker Stolt Groenland on 28 September 2019 at Ulsan in South Korea. The incident occurred during the ship-to-ship transfer…
Safety Flash: Finger injury caused by incorrectly secured console cover
What happened? An incorrectly secured console cover closed in an unplanned and unexpected way, trapping a crew member’s finger, which was injured. After completing a task on a raised working platform a technician was coming down the steps back down…
Safety Flash: double Man overboard Resulting in one fatality
What happened? During preparations for disconnecting a tow tug which was moored to a barge in turn moored to the jetty, a crew member of the tow tug fell into the water between the tow tug and the barge. A…
Safety Flash: Alcohol-based hand sanitizer warning
Source: HeliOffshore Infoshare 2020-013 This report is in relation to a Company customer with an employee who used alcohol-based hand gel sanitizer, as per the current recommendations for COVID-19 personal hygiene requirements.After application, but before the liquid sanitizer had fully evaporated…
Safety Flash: Dump truck operator fatally electrocuted by high-voltage line
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Case report: #18KY024* Issued by: Kentucky Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Date of incident: June 22, 2018 Summary On June 22, 2018, a 61-year-old dump truck owner-operator was transporting crushed rock to fill a sinkhole, when he raised the…
Safety Flash: Laborer Dies After Footing Collapse – North Carolina
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]NIOSH In-house FACE Report 2005-04 August 22 , 2007 Summary On December 31, 2004, a 32-year-old Hispanic laborer (the victim) was killed when the side wall of an eight-foot-deep trench collapsed. The victim was a member of a five-man crew…
Safety Flash: Reducing the risk of propane explosions in food trucks
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Explosions in food trucks can occur when propane leaks from equipment or a fuel tank, builds up inside a truck, and ignites. Food truck explosions have occurred in multiple locations in Canada and worldwide. The risk grows as the number…
Safety Flash: Teen Roofer Electrocuted when Ladder Contacts High Voltage Power Line
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]SUMMARY On Monday, September 10, 2018, a 16-year-old male roofer (the victim) attempted to maneuver a fully extended 25-foot ladder when he lost control, causing the ladder to fall backwards and contact a 7200-volt electric power line, electrocuting him.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row xt_row_type=”in-container”…
Safety Flash: Worker dies from carbon monoxide poisoning while using pressure washer
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]BACKGROUND Carbon monoxide (CO) is a colorless, odorless, tasteless, nonirritating toxic gas that is produced by burning fuel, such as gasoline, wood, coal, propane, oil, or kerosene. It is found in engine exhaust. When fuel burning equipment, tools, and appliances…
Safety Flash: Explosion during welding operation
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Summary A young worker was welding on the transom of an aluminum boat. Flammable vapour underneath the deck was not detected and an explosion occurred. The worker was thrown back about 10 to 15 feet (3 to 4.5 metres). The…
A Bathtub Refinisher Dies from Methylene Chloride Exposure :Safety Flash
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]A bathtub refinisher, working alone in a small apartment bathroom, died of methylene chloride exposure while using the chemical to remove paint from a bathtub. The bathroom had a small, open window but no mechanical ventilation. The victim was not…
