Safety Flash
Damage to hand rails during mooring operations
Damage to hand rails during mooring operations
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 10/16
- Control of WorkMarine OperationsVessel and Mooring
- Vessel collision
- Mooring operations
- Stop-work authority
- Marine industry
- Vessel
Summary
A safety flash describes a minor collision during alongside mooring for a passenger transfer to a barge. The vessel’s bow contacted the barge’s hand rails, causing slight damage. The barge master permitted mooring without Yokohama fenders; the bridge team continued and nobody stopped the operation.
Classifications: Vessel collision; ship collision; marine allision.
Classifications: Mooring operations; berthing; unmooring.
Classifications: Stop-work authority; stop work; stop-work intervention.
Classifications: Marine industry; shipping industry; maritime sector.
Classifications: Vessel; aboard ship; onboard vessel.
Summary
A vessel contacted a barge during alongside mooring because required fenders were absent and the operation continued.
IMCA SF 10/16. Themes: control of work, marine operations, vessel and mooring.