Safety Flash
Lost time injury (LTI): Hand severed during mooring operations
Lost time injury (LTI): Hand severed during mooring operations
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 11/14
- Hand and Finger InjuriesLeadership and CultureLine of FireVessel and Mooring
- Crushing and pinch pointsHand and finger injuriesLeadership and safety cultureLine of fire
- Mooring operations
- Mooring fittingsMooring lines
- Stop-work authority
- Marine industry
- Vessel
Summary
A Chief Mate lost his right hand while handling a pick-up rope aboard a service vessel moving floating hoses. Sea swell tightened the rope, trapping his hand against a panama eye. The flash identifies inadequate preparation, an unrecognised hazard, unsafe line handling and cultural barriers to challenging authority.
Classifications: Crushing and pinch points; crush hazards; pinch points.
Classifications: Hand and finger injuries; finger injury; hand injury.
Classifications: Leadership and safety culture; safety culture; safety leadership.
Classifications: Line of fire; struck-by hazards.
Classifications: Mooring operations; berthing; unmooring.
Classifications: Mooring fittings; cleats; bollards.
Classifications: Mooring lines; mooring rope; mooring wire.
Classifications: Stop-work authority; stop work; stop-work intervention.
Classifications: Marine industry; shipping industry; maritime sector.
Classifications: Vessel; aboard ship; onboard vessel.
Summary
A mooring rope tightened suddenly around a crew member’s arm, trapping his hand against a panama eye.
IMCA SF 11/14. Themes: hand and finger injuries, leadership and culture, line of fire, vessel and mooring.