Safety Flash
Dutch Safety Board: Fatality when mooring line snapped
Dutch Safety Board: Fatality when mooring line snapped
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 03/21
- Human FactorsLine of FireMarine OperationsVessel and Mooring
- Human factorsMooring line snapback
- Mooring operations
- Mooring linesWinch
- Exclusion zonesOperating and work proceduresOperational supervisionSafety communication
- Marine industry
- Vessel
Summary
This safety flash summarises a fatal mooring-line recoil aboard RN Privodino while entering a lock. It examines transfer between winch drums while the vessel was moving, communication failures and restricted supervision. Lessons address vessel positioning before tensioning lines, supervisors’ workload and changing snap-back danger areas.
Classifications: Human factors; human performance; ergonomics.
Classifications: Mooring line snapback; snap-back; snapback; mooring line recoil.
Classifications: Mooring operations; berthing; unmooring.
Classifications: Mooring lines; mooring rope; mooring wire.
Classifications: Winch; winches.
Classifications: Exclusion zones; red zones; restricted access zones.
Classifications: Operating and work procedures.
Classifications: Operational supervision.
Classifications: Safety communication; toolbox talk; toolbox talks.
Classifications: Marine industry; shipping industry; maritime sector.
Classifications: Vessel; aboard ship; onboard vessel.
Summary
The Dutch Safety Board has issued the following report on a mooring line fatality onboard chemical tanker RN Privodino on 28 June 2018, while entering the Noordersluis lock at Ijmuiden, en route to Amsterdam
IMCA SF 03/21. Themes: human factors, line of fire, marine operations, vessel and mooring.