Safety Flash
Lift bag lost when rigging parted
Lift bag lost when rigging parted
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 12/09
- Crane and RiggingDivingLifting Operations
- Mechanical failure
- Lifting operationsRigging
- Lifting accessories
- Operating and work proceduresSafety communicationSimultaneous operations coordination
Summary
A pipeline buoyancy operation lost a lift bag after a strip-out wire cut its webbing strops. The inversion line also pulled handling attachment points from the bag’s crown. The flash highlights task coordination, clearer work communication and purpose-built, labelled inversion attachment points for future equipment procurement.
Classifications: Mechanical failure; equipment failure.
Classifications: Lifting operations; load lifting; hoisting.
Classifications: Rigging; slinging.
Classifications: Lifting accessories; lifting gear; rigging gear.
Classifications: Operating and work procedures.
Classifications: Safety communication; toolbox talk; toolbox talks.
Classifications: Simultaneous operations coordination; SIMOPS; simultaneous operations.
Summary
A lift bag parted after a strip-out wire cut its webbing strops during subsea pipeline work.
IMCA SF 12/09. Themes: crane and rigging, diving, lifting operations.