Tag: lessons learned

Following a UK Health and Safety Executive (HSE) prosecution, a retail company was fined £1,000,000 after an electrician suffered serious burns to 15 per cent of his body when he was caught in an explosion.

IMCA reports an incident involving a hydraulic oil leak to sea from downline fitting, and provides lessons learned from the case.

The Swedish Club published its monthly safety scenario for November, describing how faulty propeller caused a vessel to strike a quay and a crane.

In the most recent update of the American Club's "Good Catch Series", lessons learned are provided from an incident when a fuel oil tank was overfilled causing an oil spill.

The US Office of Investigations and Casualty Analysis has released Safety Alert 11-22 regarding an incident involving weaknesses within Dynamic Positioning Systems.

The German Bureau of Maritime Casualty Investigation published the accident report of the multi-purpose vessel ELSE, which sailed into a lock gate at Kiel Holtenau on the Kiel Canal (NOK), on 29 August 2020.

CHIRP Maritime has received several near miss reports relating to fuel oil leakage that demonstrate the high risk of a fire due to human errors.

The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) has completed its investigation of a lifting incident on the mobile facility Deepsea Atlantic on 8 March 2002, where a slip joint unintentionally ended up on the seabed.

According to IMCA, during loading operations the slings failed, causing damage to both sides of the tank bottom.

The Marine Safety Investigation Unit of Transport Malta informed of a serious injury which occurred during the mooring of a chemical tanker, and provides lessons learned.