Safety Flash
Lost time injury (LTI): Person fell over on helideck and broke arm
Lost time injury (LTI): Person fell over on helideck and broke arm
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 13/12
- Helicopter and AviationHuman FactorsSlips, Trips and Falls
- Slips, trips and falls
- Helicopter operations
- Helicopter
- Helideck
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Summary
This safety flash summarises a Marine Safety Forum incident in which helicopter turbulence knocked a landing officer off his feet during landing. He fell on the helideck and broke his arm. The account identifies inadequate sheltering from the helicopter’s downdraft as the immediate cause.
Classifications: Slips, trips and falls; same-level falls.
Classifications: Helicopter operations; offshore aviation; rotary-wing operations.
Classifications: Helicopter; rotorcraft.
Classifications: Helideck; helicopter landing deck.
Summary
A helideck officer fell and broke an arm after failing to shelter adequately from helicopter downdraft.
IMCA SF 13/12. Themes: helicopter and aviation, human factors, slips, trips and falls.