Safety Flash
NTSB: Fire on vessel – escaped exhaust gases
NTSB: Fire on vessel – escaped exhaust gases
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 20/24
- Hot Work and FireInspection and MaintenanceMachinery and EquipmentStructural and Asset Integrity
- FireMechanical failure
- Inspection and maintenance
- Marine industry
- Vessel
Summary
This safety flash describes a towing-vessel fire on the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway. The NTSB suggested that undetected muffler cracks released exhaust gases that ignited accommodation woodwork; combustible furnishings contributed to damage. The crew evacuated safely, but the vessel was destroyed. Readers are asked to consider inspecting exhaust-system welds and other weak points.
Classifications: Fire; fire safety.
Classifications: Mechanical failure; equipment failure.
Classifications: Inspection and maintenance; asset inspection; equipment maintenance.
Classifications: Marine industry; shipping industry; maritime sector.
Classifications: Vessel; aboard ship; onboard vessel.
Summary
The National Transportation Safety Board of the United States (NTSB) published "Safer Seas Digest 2023", which includes a number of incidents which may be of interest to IMCA members.
IMCA SF 20/24. Themes: hot work and fire, inspection and maintenance, machinery and equipment, structural and asset integrity.