Lessons learned: Everyone should feel able to stop the job
IMCA provides lessons learned from an incident in which, a roller weighing 5.7kg fell 8m and hit someone on the shoulder.
This high potential incident occurred during alongside when a 69kV electrical cable was being trans-spooled ashore from a third party vessel. A connection bolt failed, allowing the roller to fall from a suspended Bow Cable Engine (BCE). On disconnection it dropped, first striking and being deflected by the BCE, before hitting the right shoulder of one of the subcontractor’s workers. The worker was underneath and close to the BCE as their task was to guide the cable as part of coiling it for storage. Work was stopped and the person injured was taken transported to external medical facility for assessment and X-rays. The X-rays revealed no breaks and the person injured was fortunately able to return to work.
