Safety Flash
NTSB: Lithium-ion battery fire destroys vessel bridge
NTSB: Lithium-ion battery fire destroys vessel bridge
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 28/23
- Electrical SafetyEmergency ResponseHot Work and Fire
- Electrical safetyFire
- Emergency responseFire protectionSafety communication
- Marine industry
- Vessel
Summary
This safety flash summarises an NTSB investigation into a tanker bridge fire while alongside. Probable cause was thermal runaway in a handheld radio’s lithium-ion battery. It describes prompt crew firefighting, absent bridge fire detection, extensive equipment damage and precautions concerning battery care, charging, sourcing and fire containment.
Classifications: Electrical safety; electrical hazards.
Classifications: Fire; fire safety.
Classifications: Emergency response; emergency preparedness.
Classifications: Fire protection; fire suppression; fire detection.
Classifications: Safety communication; toolbox talk; toolbox talks.
Classifications: Marine industry; shipping industry; maritime sector.
Classifications: Vessel; aboard ship; onboard vessel.
Summary
The National Transportation Safety Board of the United States (NTSB) has published report MIR-23-23 relating to a Lithium-ion battery fire aboard a tanker.
IMCA SF 28/23. Themes: electrical safety, emergency response, hot work and fire.