Safety Flash
Lost time injury (LTI): Fall overboard/fall from height
Lost time injury (LTI): Fall overboard/fall from height
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 17/14
- Evacuation, Escape and RescueMarine OperationsVessel and MooringWorking at Height
- Falls from heightSlips, trips and falls
- Mooring operationsWorking at height
- Mooring fittingsMooring lines
- Fall preventionFirst aid and medical provisionRisk assessmentStop-work authority
- Marine industry
- Port and quaysideVessel
Summary
A hopper-barge crew member suffered serious spinal injuries after losing balance while refitting a mooring line in adverse harbour weather, falling from about 2 m onto a quay-wall fender. The flash examines lone working, absent restraint and inadequate risk assessment, with lessons on securing personnel, mooring arrangements and handling suspected spinal injuries.
Classifications: Falls from height; fall from height.
Classifications: Slips, trips and falls; same-level falls.
Classifications: Mooring operations; berthing; unmooring.
Classifications: Working at height; work at height.
Classifications: Mooring fittings; cleats; bollards.
Classifications: Mooring lines; mooring rope; mooring wire.
Classifications: Fall prevention; edge protection; guardrails.
Classifications: First aid and medical provision.
Classifications: Risk assessment; hazard assessment.
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 worker fell overboard from a barge while refixing a mooring rope in poor weather and sustained serious spinal injuries.
IMCA SF 17/14. Themes: evacuation, escape and rescue, marine operations, vessel and mooring, working at height.