Safety Flash
Mooring line failure resulting in serious injury
Mooring line failure resulting in serious injury
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 11/15
- Line of FireMarine OperationsVessel and Mooring
- Mechanical failureMooring line snapback
- Mooring operations
- Mooring linesWinch
- Marine industry
- Vessel
Summary
A deck officer suffered serious head injuries when a forward spring line parted and recoiled during efforts to reposition a berthed vessel in gusty winds. The flash describes repeated winch stalling and slipping, the officer’s position near a roller fairlead, and subsequent MAIB trials measuring mooring-line elongation and snap-back behaviour.
Classifications: Mechanical failure; equipment failure.
Classifications: Mooring line snapback; snap-back; snapback; mooring line recoil.
Classifications: Mooring operations; berthing; unmooring.
Classifications: Mooring lines; mooring rope; mooring wire.
Classifications: Winch; winches.
Classifications: Marine industry; shipping industry; maritime sector.
Classifications: Vessel; aboard ship; onboard vessel.
Summary
The UK Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) has published a safety bulletin on an incident in which the failure of a mooring line resulted in a deck officer suffering serious head injuries.
IMCA SF 11/15. Themes: line of fire, marine operations, vessel and mooring.