real life accident

A vessel underway started its incinerator to incinerate oily rags and sludge. About five hours later, after the job was completed, the incinerator was stopped. By 1900 hrs, five hours after the incinerator had been turned off.

An engine room crew member was in the vessel’s workshop when he spotted an unsafe condition. He attempted to rearrange the misplaced pipe, but as he was doing so, another pipe stowed above slipped.

A bulk carrier coming into port was low on bunkers, and because of payment problems, the Master opted to remain at anchor overnight. The Master’s attempts to keep the bow into the wind and check the leeway by intermittent use of the engine were unsuccessful.

As a training exercise, the ship’s deck crew were discharging LTA on deck. A senior crew member suggested catching the line on its descent to speed up recovery. The speed and trajectory of the line caused a minor friction burn to a finger.

The crew was tasked with removing an air compressor motor from its enclosing cabinet. The motor was being lifted, it became stuck. As one of the crew members attempted to remove it, the motor released itself and swung out.

The OIC of the aft mooring station did not notice the developing hazard of the fast-moving mooring line as his attention was on the attending mooring tug. The rope caught the crew member’s arm as it slid out, causing a fracture to his left forearm.

Scaffolding had been erected on top of hatch cover four of a general cargo vessel to allow two crewmembers to paint the crane jib while the vessel was underway.

While attending to a related task on deck, a crew member stepped back and fell backwards into the open moon pool hatchway. Find out more about the incident inside the article.