Safety Flash
Fatality during diving operation
Fatality during diving operation
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 03/03
- Control of WorkDivingHuman FactorsPressure Systems
- Human factorsMechanical failurePressure systems
- Diving operations
- Hose
- Job safety analysisManagement of changeOperating and work proceduresOperational supervision
- Subsea
Summary
A diver died during flexible-hose installation when an improvised wooden protective plate failed, allowing rapid water inflow that sucked him into the hose end. The flash identifies procedural deviations and misperception of risk, and recommends reviewing diving procedures, conducting job safety analysis, controlling procedural changes and ensuring adequate supervision.
Classifications: Human factors; human performance; ergonomics.
Classifications: Mechanical failure; equipment failure.
Classifications: Pressure systems; stored pressure; pressurised systems; pressurized systems.
Classifications: Diving operations; diving; commercial diving.
Classifications: Hose; flexible hose.
Classifications: Job safety analysis; JSA; job hazard analysis; JHA.
Classifications: Management of change; MOC; change management.
Classifications: Operating and work procedures.
Classifications: Operational supervision.
Classifications: Subsea; underwater worksite.
Summary
A diver died after being pulled into a flexible hose when an improvised protective plate suddenly failed.
IMCA SF 03/03. Themes: control of work, diving, human factors, pressure systems.