Safety Flash
MAIB: fatal man overboard incident whilst boarding tug
MAIB: fatal man overboard incident whilst boarding tug
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 03/20
- Evacuation, Escape and RescueLeadership and CultureMarine Operations
- Cold stressDrowningRisk management
- Personnel transfer
- Personal protective equipment
- Competence and trainingEvacuation, escape and rescueRisk assessment
- Marine industry
- Port and quayside
Summary
This safety flash summarises MAIB findings on a fatal fall into water while reboarding Millgarth at Tranmere Oil Terminal. Despite automatic lifejacket inflation, cold-water incapacitation prevented crew recovery aboard. It highlights longstanding unsafe access arrangements, unevaluated shared risks and unfamiliarity with man-overboard recovery equipment.
Classifications: Cold stress; hypothermia.
Classifications: Drowning; man overboard; person overboard.
Classifications: Risk management; risk evaluation.
Classifications: Personnel transfer; crew transfer.
Classifications: Personal protective equipment; PPE; personal protection equipment.
Classifications: Competence and training; competency assurance; safety training.
Classifications: Evacuation, escape and rescue; EER; escape and rescue.
Classifications: Risk assessment; hazard assessment.
Classifications: Marine industry; shipping industry; maritime sector.
Classifications: Port and quayside; quayside; harbour; harbor.
Summary
The UK Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) has published Accident Investigation Report 15/2019 into a fatality whereby a man fell overboard whilst boarding a tug at an oil terminal at Birkenhead, England
IMCA SF 03/20. Themes: evacuation, escape and rescue, leadership and culture, marine operations.