Safety Flash
Confined space entry fatality
Confined space entry fatality
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 19/14
- Confined SpaceHot Work and Fire
- Confined space hazards
- Confined space entryHot work
- Marine industry
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Summary
This safety flash summarises an IOGP alert concerning two shipyard workers who entered a confined space following welding with argon shielding. One died and the other required medical treatment. It highlights the seriousness of confined-space entry risks and points readers to the original alert and an IMCA video.
Classifications: Confined space hazards; confined-space hazards.
Classifications: Confined space entry; tank entry; enclosed space entry.
Classifications: Hot work; welding and cutting.
Classifications: Marine industry; shipping industry; maritime sector.
Summary
Two shipyard workers died after entering a space where welding had been conducted under argon shielding.
IMCA SF 19/14. Themes: confined space, hot work and fire.