IMPROPER OPERATION OF CRANE LEADS TO FATAL ACCIDENT
The US Coast Guard has published its report into the crane accident in the Coast Guard buoy yard in Homer, which resulted in the death of Chief Warrant Officer Michael Kozloski. The investigation found improper operation of the shoreside crane was the direct cause of the mishap.
On 31 January 2019, at the USCG Cutter Hickory buoy yard in Homer, Alaska, numerous crewmembers were carrying out several yard clean up, maintenance and repair and organization tasks before a planned underway period.
A two person team was operating the Shuttlelift crane car, the Mishap Crane (MC), to move four distinct loads of Aids to Navigation equipment from the top of Container Express boxes to a location on the ground where they were subsequently moved via forklift to alternate locations.
The team was comprised of a rigger and crane operator. Neither of these members were qualified to perform these duties.
During movement of the fourth load, the MC tipped over, with the boom fatally hitting the unit’s Chief Warrant Officer 2 Boatswain who was engaged in conversation with another crewmember within the crane operating envelope.
Probable cause The investigation found improper operation of the shoreside crane was the direct cause of the mishap. The investigation also indicated leadership deficiencies aboard the Cutter Hickory which contributed to inadequate crewmember training and complacency with shoreside operations.
Read the report in full at
https://bit.ly/2Xlaw6y. CRANKCASE BREACH OF PORT MAIN ENGINE LEADS TO FIRE SAYS NEW REPORT
The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has published an investigation report into the engine room fire onboard the towing vessel Leland Speakes on the Lower Mississippi River in February 2018. A catastrophic failure and crankcase breach of the port main engine caused the fire.
On 21 February 2018, at 0740, the towing vessel Leland Speakes was pushing 21 barges upbound on the Lower Mississippi River when a fire broke out in the engine room at mile 520.6, south of Greenville, Mississippi.
The nine crew members onboard tried to fight the fire but, unable to control it, abandoned the vessel to a skiff dispatched from a Good Samaritan towboat. The abandoned tow drifted 11 miles downriver until another towing vessel pushed it into a sandbar. The fire burned until later that evening before being extinguished by fire response teams and vessels. The damage to the Leland Speakes was estimated at $4.5–5 million.
Probable cause NTSB determines that the probable cause of the engine room fire onboard the Leland Speakes was a catastrophic failure and crankcase breach of the port main engine resulting from failure of the caps that secured two piston connecting rods to the crankshaft.
Contributing to the severity of the fire was the vessel’s lack of a fixed fire-extinguishing system for the engine room and lack of redundant fire pumps.
Read the report in full at
https://bit.ly/2YqNSew.
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