Safety Flash
Mooring: Port operator fined after worker injured by capstan
Mooring: Port operator fined after worker injured by capstan
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 07/16
- Competence and TrainingLine of FireMachinery and EquipmentVessel and Mooring
- EntanglementRisk management
- Mooring operations
- Rotating machinery
- Competence and trainingOperational supervisionSafety communication
- Marine industry
- Port and quayside
Summary
A worker sustained a serious arm injury involving a powered capstan while a three-person team secured vessel mooring ropes at a maritime terminal. The flash reports inadequate risk control, instruction, training, supervision and safety monitoring, alongside failures to heed workers’ earlier warnings, and points readers towards mooring training resources.
Classifications: Entanglement; caught in machinery; drawn into machinery.
Classifications: Risk management; risk evaluation.
Classifications: Mooring operations; berthing; unmooring.
Classifications: Rotating machinery; rotating equipment.
Classifications: Competence and training; competency assurance; safety training.
Classifications: Operational supervision.
Classifications: Safety communication; toolbox talk; toolbox talks.
Classifications: Marine industry; shipping industry; maritime sector.
Classifications: Port and quayside; quayside; harbour; harbor.
Summary
A worker suffered serious arm injuries after becoming entangled in a powered capstan during mooring.
IMCA SF 07/16. Themes: competence and training, line of fire, machinery and equipment, vessel and mooring.