Real Life Incident: Fingers Crushed By Heavy Equipment
An engineer and a helper needed to inspect the spare impeller blade assembly for the inert gas generator.
The Mariners’ Alerting and Reporting Scheme is primarily a confidential reporting system run by The Nautical Institute to allow full reporting of accidents (and near misses) without fear of identification or litigation. MARS reports also regularly comprise alerts condensed from official industry sources, so that issues resulting from recent incidents can be efficiently relayed to the mariner on board.
An engineer and a helper needed to inspect the spare impeller blade assembly for the inert gas generator.
A loaded bulk carrier was underway at about 13 knots in a busy marine waterway, in poor visibility and in darkness.
A Very Large Ore Carrier (VLOC) loaded with iron ore fines was underway with a combined wave (wind and swell) of about 3.7m on the starboard side.
A general cargo ship was berthed to load steel products. The ship had a gantry crane which ran on rails on the coaming each side of the holds and was used to lift or replace the hatch covers.
As the vessel was moving somewhat, both vertically (15 cm) and horizontally (30 cm), the ladder hit the dock and suffered damage before it could be raised above the level of the jetty.
A fully loaded tanker left port despite a bad weather forecast for the following days. As a precaution, the Master chose a route relatively close to the coast in the event of an emergency.
A small passenger vessel was approaching port after conducting post-refit sea trials and a pilot had embarked for the docking.
A vessel was underway and experiencing severe rolling and pitching due to a heavy, long swell. In the galley, personnel were preparing the next meal.
In the dark early morning hours, a service boat had been ordered to transport five crew members to an anchored tanker.
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