Safety Flash
UK MAIB: A slip into the hold
UK MAIB: A slip into the hold
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 13/24
- Evacuation, Escape and RescueSlips, Trips and FallsWorking at Height
- Falls from heightSlips, trips and falls
- Working at height
- Fall protection equipment
- Competence and trainingEvacuation, escape and rescueRisk assessment
- Marine industry
- Vessel
Summary
A cargo-vessel crew member fell into a hold while repositioning a single-lanyard safety hook to reach a bulkhead locking bolt, sustaining an open upper-arm fracture. The flash highlights inadequate lighting, incomplete working-at-height risk assessments and missing casualty recovery arrangements, with treatment at the scene lasting over an hour before hospital transfer.
Classifications: Falls from height; fall from height.
Classifications: Slips, trips and falls; same-level falls.
Classifications: Working at height; work at height.
Classifications: Fall protection equipment; safety harness; fall arrest equipment.
Classifications: Competence and training; competency assurance; safety training.
Classifications: Evacuation, escape and rescue; EER; escape and rescue.
Classifications: Risk assessment; hazard assessment.
Classifications: Marine industry; shipping industry; maritime sector.
Classifications: Vessel; aboard ship; onboard vessel.
Summary
The UK Marine Accident Investigation Branch has shared a safety update on a crew person who slipped and fell to the hold, resulting in an open fracture to the upper arm.
IMCA SF 13/24. Themes: evacuation, escape and rescue, slips, trips and falls, working at height.