Safety Flash
Swedish Club: Lessons learned – crew member loses leg in mooring injury
Swedish Club: Lessons learned – crew member loses leg in mooring injury
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 13/21
- Line of FireMarine OperationsVessel and Mooring
- Crushing and pinch pointsMooring line snapback
- Mooring operations
- Mooring fittingsMooring lines
- Exclusion zonesRisk assessment
- Marine industry
- Vessel
Summary
A crew member lost a leg after becoming trapped between a rapidly paying-out mooring line and a fairlead. The lines sank and caught in the propeller. The flash examines how a bight around a bollard expanded the snapback zone and highlights the need to reassess mooring risks for each operation.
Classifications: Crushing and pinch points; crush hazards; pinch points.
Classifications: Mooring line snapback; snap-back; snapback; mooring line recoil.
Classifications: Mooring operations; berthing; unmooring.
Classifications: Mooring fittings; cleats; bollards.
Classifications: Mooring lines; mooring rope; mooring wire.
Classifications: Exclusion zones; red zones; restricted access zones.
Classifications: Risk assessment; hazard assessment.
Classifications: Marine industry; shipping industry; maritime sector.
Classifications: Vessel; aboard ship; onboard vessel.
Summary
The Swedish [P&I] Club has recently released a “casebook” containing safety lessons learned from maritime incidents. This useful resource document can be found here: www.swedishclub.com/loss-prevention/cases/case-studies/. One of the case studies describes a very serious injury of a crew member during mooring operations.
IMCA SF 13/21. Themes: line of fire, marine operations, vessel and mooring.