Alert 21 Mar 2024 Damage and personal injury arising from heavy weather On a vessel waiting on weather, a weathertight door in the crane pedestal from the main deck to the crane room was forced open by a large wave coming from a different direction than the prevailing wind and sea. During operations to close the weathertight door, a vessel crew member was hit by water g… View Alert
Alert 15 Mar 2024 Pipeline End Manifold yoke dropped from 45° position During adjustment of the yoke securing arrangement for a PLEM (Pipe Line End Manifold), the cargo strap failed resulting in the yoke falling and landing in its horizontal resting position. Two persons were working inside the PLEM in close proximity to the yoke at the time. Neither were injured. Whi… View Alert
Alert 15 Mar 2024 Operating Mobile Plant - Person in Line of Fire A crew was installing electrical cable in a trench using specialist equipment (a ‘Cable Crawler’). As they reached the end of a cable the crew began to remove the cable drum from the rear of the Crawler so that they could load a new drum. The Leading Hand moved between the Cable Crawler and its hydr… View Alert
Alert 28 Feb 2024 Vessel damaged in contact with platform A CTV (crew transfer vessel) collided with a fixed platform when one of the engines failed. The CTV was approaching a platform to transfer crew onto it, when there was a failure of control of the port inner main engine, causing it to continue to drive the vessel forward. Whilst control of the engine… View Alert
Alert 28 Feb 2024 wire rope hazard management - dropped turbine nacelle A vessel crane was being used to offload the 69 ton wind turbine nacelle. While hoisting, a wire rope parted, causing the load to fall to the deck. No-one was harmed, but the load landed within a metre of working personnel – there was high potential for serious injury. There was significant damage t… View Alert
Alert 28 Feb 2024 Confined space entry – tank cleaning Incident 1: What happened - worker required CPR A worker was vacuuming, and the nozzle became stuck inside the tank. To free the nozzle, the worker - who was wearing a respirator with organic filters specifically used for working outside the tank - fully entered the tank, where he fell ill. Coworker… View Alert
Alert 28 Feb 2024 Hot work whilst working at height in a confined space – job was stopped During a site visit to a vessel, it was observed that a third-party contractor’s welder was standing on the wooden platform (the actual height was over 1.80m) inside a confined space (a ballast tank) doing some flame-cutting jobs. No fall protection guards were installed around the worker, not was t… View Alert
Alert 28 Feb 2024 Unauthorised entry into confined space Planned repair works were taking place on a barge. The work involved hot work (welding & grinding). During the works, the stand-by person, controlling several areas, observed sub-contract personnel accessing a confined space in which welding was taking place. Stop Work Authority was exercised im… View Alert
Alert 16 Feb 2024 Two dropped object incidents Incident 1 – dropped metal wedge A pin was required to be pulled on a hinge system for the dynamic gangway system on a W2W (walk-to-work) vessel. As part of this task metal wedges were used to hold some of the gangway components in place. The job of pulling the pins was not going as expected due to … View Alert
Alert 16 Feb 2024 Fall Protection – Defective Safety Harness During equipment recovery operations on the back deck of a vessel, a technician felt something unexpected around the Dorsal ‘D’ ring on the back of his safety harness. Operations were immediately stopped. On inspection, several points of failure were identified on and around the area of the plastic … View Alert
Alert 16 Feb 2024 Failure of self-righting frame on Fast Rescue Craft (FRC) During a routine rescue drill the self-righting frame assembly fell off the Fast Rescue Craft (FRC) into the water while the FRC was transiting at approximately 15 knots. The self-righting frame was recovered by the FRC crew and returned to the vessel, where the cause of failure identified, and repa… View Alert
Alert 16 Feb 2024 High potential: navigation near offshore wind turbines During survey operations, a chartered vessel entered a wind turbine safety zone on two separate occasions whilst attempting to achieve the closest approach line. On the first occasion, the breach was dealt with onboard the vessel with a safety stand down. On the second occasion, the vessel was immed… View Alert