Safety Alert
Safety Alert 271 - Motor Vessel to Platform Boat Landing Transfer Fatality
Safety Alert 271 - Motor Vessel to Platform Boat Landing Transfer Fatality
- BSEE
- Safety Alert
- BSEE Safety Alert 271
- Line of FireMarine Operations
- DrowningFalls from height
- Personnel transfer
- Personal protective equipment
- Competence and trainingContractor managementSafety communicationStop-work authority
- ConstructionMarine industry
- Vessel
Summary
An MMS alert describes a fatal personnel-transfer incident involving a condemned platform boat landing. A construction foreman fell approximately four feet into water, was recovered and later collapsed; the autopsy identified hypertensive heart disease as the cause of death. Recommendations address contractor oversight, access assessment, orientations, stop-work authority, swing ropes and flotation devices.
Classifications: Drowning; man overboard; person overboard.
Classifications: Falls from height; fall from height.
Classifications: Personnel transfer; crew transfer.
Classifications: Personal protective equipment; PPE; personal protection equipment.
Classifications: Competence and training; competency assurance; safety training.
Classifications: Contractor management; contractor assurance.
Classifications: Safety communication; toolbox talk; toolbox talks.
Classifications: Stop-work authority; stop work; stop-work intervention.
Classifications: Construction; construction industry.
Classifications: Marine industry; shipping industry; maritime sector.
Classifications: Vessel; aboard ship; onboard vessel.
BSEE Safety Alert 271. Themes: line of fire, marine operations.