UK MAIB investigation - Fatality on vessel SMN Explorer on 1 Feb 2018

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(www.MaritimeCyprus.com) The UK Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) issued the report of its investigation of the uncontrolled closure of a hatch cover on the general cargo vessel SMN Explorer with loss of one life in King’s Lynn, England on 1 February 2018.

The crewman was part of a working party stowing cargo slings used for the discharge of the ship’s cargo. The accident occurred when the crewman climbed up the inside of the open hatch cover after its locking pins had been removed.

SUMMARY
On 1 February 2018, a crewman from the cargo vessel SMN Explorer was fatally crushed while working on deck when a stowage space hatch cover fell on him. The weight of the crewman climbing up the inside of the open hatch cover after its
locking pins had been removed caused it to topple forward and slam shut.

The accident was the result of procedural inadequacies and a lapse of supervision. The investigation identified that the vessel’s safety management system was immature and the safety culture on board the vessel was weak. Risk assessments
had not been conducted for routine tasks and a safe system of work had not been developed for opening and closing the forecastle (fo’c’s’le) stowage space hatch cover.

Recommendations have been made to the vessel’s managers, Sky Mare Navigation Co, to: improve the system of work for closing SMN Explorer’s foredeck hatch; and, across its managed fleet, take steps both to improve the safety culture on board and, specifically, improve the maintenance management of lifting appliances.

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Source: UK Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB)

 

 

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