Safety Flash
MAIB: Worker falls between vessel and quay
MAIB: Worker falls between vessel and quay
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 28/22
- Evacuation, Escape and RescueMarine OperationsSlips, Trips and Falls
- DrowningFalls from heightSlips, trips and falls
- Personnel transfer
- Gangway
- Evacuation, escape and rescueFall preventionOperating and work proceduresSafety communication
- Marine industry
- Port and quaysideVessel
Summary
A shore worker used a stowed gangway despite crew instructions to wait for alternative access as the tide fell. He slipped and fell over 8 m into the sea, sustaining significant injuries. The flash describes his rescue and stresses safe access arrangements and compliance with instructions to visitors.
Classifications: Drowning; man overboard; person overboard.
Classifications: Falls from height; fall from height.
Classifications: Slips, trips and falls; same-level falls.
Classifications: Personnel transfer; crew transfer.
Classifications: Gangway; walk-to-work gangway; W2W gangway.
Classifications: Evacuation, escape and rescue; EER; escape and rescue.
Classifications: Fall prevention; edge protection; guardrails.
Classifications: Operating and work procedures.
Classifications: Safety communication; toolbox talk; toolbox talks.
Classifications: Marine industry; shipping industry; maritime sector.
Classifications: Port and quayside; quayside; harbour; harbor.
Classifications: Vessel; aboard ship; onboard vessel.
Summary
A worker ignored instructions and fell from an unsafe gangway into the water between a vessel and quay.
IMCA SF 28/22. Themes: evacuation, escape and rescue, marine operations, slips, trips and falls.