Safety Flash
MSF: Watertight door fatality
MSF: Watertight door fatality
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 16/25
- Line of FireMachinery and EquipmentVessel and Mooring
- Crushing and pinch points
- Flood containment and watertight integrity
- Marine industry
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Summary
Reports a fatality involving an individual found between a sliding hydraulic watertight door and its frame at a marine worksite. Causes remained under investigation. The flash explains watertight door functions and operating arrangements, and prompts crews to reflect on equipment risks and the adequacy of safeguards.
Classifications: Crushing and pinch points; crush hazards; pinch points.
Classifications: Flood containment and watertight integrity.
Classifications: Marine industry; shipping industry; maritime sector.
Summary
The Marine Safety Forum (MSF) has published Safety Alert 25-09 relating to a watertight door fatality.
IMCA SF 16/25. Themes: line of fire, machinery and equipment, vessel and mooring.