Safety Flash
Confined space entry fatalities
Confined space entry fatalities
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 12/15
- Confined SpaceEmergency ResponseEvacuation, Escape and Rescue
- Confined space hazards
- Confined space entry
- Evacuation, escape and rescueAtmospheric gas testing
- Marine industry
- Vessel
Summary
This safety flash describes five deaths following entry into a compartment on a pontoon beached for repairs. Air quality was not checked before the initial entry. Successive rescue entrants also became unconscious or succumbed; only one of the six entrants survived. The account highlights uncontrolled confined-space entry.
Classifications: Confined space hazards; confined-space hazards.
Classifications: Confined space entry; tank entry; enclosed space entry.
Classifications: Evacuation, escape and rescue; EER; escape and rescue.
Classifications: Atmospheric gas testing; gas testing; atmosphere testing.
Classifications: Marine industry; shipping industry; maritime sector.
Classifications: Vessel; aboard ship; onboard vessel.
Summary
Multiple people died or were incapacitated after entering a compartment without checking its air quality.
IMCA SF 12/15. Themes: confined space, emergency response, evacuation, escape and rescue.