Safety Flash
MSF: Bulk hose drawn into thruster – severe damage and delay
MSF: Bulk hose drawn into thruster – severe damage and delay
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 08/15
- Machinery and EquipmentMarine Operations
- Entanglement
- Marine operations
- HoseRotating machinery
- Marine industry
- Vessel
Summary
This safety flash summarises a Marine Safety Forum incident involving a vessel’s port azipod thruster. Around 100 m of bulk transfer hose, including fittings, was drawn into the thruster, destroying the hose and significantly delaying operations. The supplied account gives no cause or preventive measures.
Classifications: Entanglement; caught in machinery; drawn into machinery.
Classifications: Marine operations; maritime operations.
Classifications: Hose; flexible hose.
Classifications: Rotating machinery; rotating equipment.
Classifications: Marine industry; shipping industry; maritime sector.
Classifications: Vessel; aboard ship; onboard vessel.
Summary
A bulk transfer hose was drawn into a vessel thruster, destroying the hose and causing significant operational delays.
IMCA SF 08/15. Themes: machinery and equipment, marine operations.