Safety Flash
Bunkering hose cut by propeller
Bunkering hose cut by propeller
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 13/13
- Hydrocarbon ReleaseMarine Operations
- Entanglement
- Bunkering
- HoseRotating machinery
- Marine industry
Summary
This safety flash summarises a Marine Safety Forum incident involving a bunkering hose that sank, fouled a propeller and sustained damage. The supplied account gives no incident date, location, release quantity or preventive measures, and directs readers to request older flashes from the Forum.
Classifications: Entanglement; caught in machinery; drawn into machinery.
Classifications: Bunkering; marine refuelling; marine refueling.
Classifications: Hose; flexible hose.
Classifications: Rotating machinery; rotating equipment.
Classifications: Marine industry; shipping industry; maritime sector.
Summary
The Marine Safety Forum has published the following safety flash, regarding an incident in which a bunkering hose was damaged because it sank and fouled the propeller.
IMCA SF 13/13. Themes: hydrocarbon release, marine operations.