Safety Flash
Fatality: struck down by falling object during lifting operation
Fatality: struck down by falling object during lifting operation
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 17/08
- Control of WorkDropped ObjectsLifting OperationsSimultaneous Operations
- Dropped objectsLine of fire
- Lifting operationsRigging
- Lifting accessories
- Exclusion zonesOperational supervisionSimultaneous operations coordinationStop-work authority
- Marine industry
- Port and quaysideVessel
Summary
A shipyard worker was fatally struck by an angle plate during a ballast-tank lift. The plate or its webbing rigging snagged, allowing it to slip free of the choked sling. The flash identifies unsafe rigging, disregarded stop-work instructions, poor simultaneous-operations coordination and inadequate control of personnel beneath the load.
Classifications: Dropped objects; falling objects; DROPS.
Classifications: Line of fire; struck-by hazards.
Classifications: Lifting operations; load lifting; hoisting.
Classifications: Rigging; slinging.
Classifications: Lifting accessories; lifting gear; rigging gear.
Classifications: Exclusion zones; red zones; restricted access zones.
Classifications: Operational supervision.
Classifications: Simultaneous operations coordination; SIMOPS; simultaneous operations.
Classifications: Stop-work authority; stop work; stop-work intervention.
Classifications: Marine industry; shipping industry; maritime sector.
Classifications: Port and quayside; quayside; harbour; harbor.
Classifications: Vessel; aboard ship; onboard vessel.
Summary
A steel plate slipped from inadequate rigging during a ballast-tank lift and fatally struck a worker below.
IMCA SF 17/08. Themes: control of work, dropped objects, lifting operations, simultaneous operations.