Near miss: dropped object during lifeboat testing

During launch testing of a lifeboat, a turnbuckle and shackle weighing 7kg fell 23m from the davit onto the boat, landing within a metre of a worker hooking up the falls at the lifeboat hatch. The worker was physically unharmed; there was some cosmetic damage to the lifeboat.

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