Safety Flash
Inappropriate use of pneumatic line thrower for mooring line
Inappropriate use of pneumatic line thrower for mooring line
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 06/21
- Management of ChangeMarine OperationsVessel and Mooring
- Line of fire
- Mooring operations
- Mooring lines
- Management of changeRisk assessmentSafety communicationStop-work authority
- Marine industry
- Port and quaysideVessel
Summary
A vessel’s crew used a pneumatic line thrower during mooring after difficulty getting a heaving line ashore. Two projectiles disappeared and a warehouse window was broken approximately 100 metres from the vessel. The flash identifies shortcomings in instructions, risk assessment and communication, and emphasises managing changed plans, toolbox talks and stopping unsafe work.
Classifications: Line of fire; struck-by hazards.
Classifications: Mooring operations; berthing; unmooring.
Classifications: Mooring lines; mooring rope; mooring wire.
Classifications: Management of change; MOC; change management.
Classifications: Risk assessment; hazard assessment.
Classifications: Safety communication; toolbox talk; toolbox talks.
Classifications: Stop-work authority; stop work; stop-work intervention.
Classifications: Marine industry; shipping industry; maritime sector.
Classifications: Port and quayside; quayside; harbour; harbor.
Classifications: Vessel; aboard ship; onboard vessel.
Summary
While mooring a vessel, crew attempted several times to throw a mooring line using a pneumatic line thrower (PLT), during which two of the “bullets” disappeared and a window was broken at a warehouse building approximately 100 metres from the vessel
IMCA SF 06/21. Themes: management of change, marine operations, vessel and mooring.