IMCA Safety Flash 11/17

Theme: Dropped Objects

This safety flash brings together five incidents relating to dropped objects or potential dropped objects. In the first, someone was injured when equipment fell after being unsecured. In the second, lack of understanding of how magnetic lifting equipment worked led to a lost time injury (LTI). The third incident covers the fall to deck from 16m of a part weighing 600kg. The last two incidents are near miss incidents relating to potential dropped objects.

1 Dropped Object Injury: Equipment Shifted When It Was Incorrectly Unsecured

2 LTI as a Result of Load Dropped from Lifting Magnet

3 Dropped Object: Lay Tower Adjuster Leg Pin

4 Near Miss: Multiple Potential Dropped Objects Discovered During Loading of Spooling Unit

5 High Potential Near Miss: Incorrectly Secured Overhead Equipment

Rad the safety Flash: IMCASF-11-17