Safety Flash
Fatality during cable-pulling operations
Fatality during cable-pulling operations
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 05/03
- Control of WorkLifting OperationsLine of Fire
- Line of fireMechanical failure
- Marine operations
- Wire rope
- Exclusion zonesManagement of changeRisk assessmentSafety communication
- Marine industry
Summary
A beach worker was killed by recoiling polypropylene hawsers during wire-rope cable pulling involving anchored barges. The connector jammed in a sheave while the pulling barge continued moving. Investigation reminders address engineered methods, risk assessment, approval of changed methods, toolbox briefings, barriers, coordinated communication and stopping unsafe work.
Classifications: Line of fire; struck-by hazards.
Classifications: Mechanical failure; equipment failure.
Classifications: Marine operations; maritime operations.
Classifications: Wire rope; steel wire rope.
Classifications: Exclusion zones; red zones; restricted access zones.
Classifications: Management of change; MOC; change management.
Classifications: Risk assessment; hazard assessment.
Classifications: Safety communication; toolbox talk; toolbox talks.
Classifications: Marine industry; shipping industry; maritime sector.
Summary
A snapped tensioned hawser killed a worker during beach cable pulling, highlighting engineered methods, exclusion zones and communication.
IMCA SF 05/03. Themes: control of work, lifting operations, line of fire.