Safety Alerts

Hand Injuries

Number: 26-16 Dated: 16/10/2026

Serious Finger Injury During Fan Belt Intervention

Serious finger injury during intervention to recitify a defect on an air handling unit.

Number: 26-15 Dated: 09/10/2026

Lost Time Incident – Loss of Awareness

Severe hand injury as a result of loss of awareness

Number: 26-11 Dated: 21/08/2026

Lost Time Incident – Failure to Isolate

Serious hand injury during emergency generator inspection.

Number: 26-07 Dated: 29/06/2026

Incorrect Footwear Results in Injury

Vessels cook injured hand after a slip in the galley

Number: 25-08 Dated: 23/04/2025

Grease Gun Hand Injury

Serious hand injury sustained from a high pressure injection incident during routine use of a grease gun

Number: 24-08 Dated: 27/09/2024

Burns from Pot Handling in Galley

Burns sustained during pot handling in vessel galley.

Number: 24-05 Dated: 26/06/2024

Serious Hand Injury Whilst Donning Breathing Apparatus

Vessel crew member injured whilst donning breathing apparatus during a fire drill.

Number: 24-01 Dated: 19/03/2024

Hand Injury After Tubular Cargo Shifted

Vessel crew members hand injured when tubular cargo shifted.

Number: 22-16 Dated: 09/12/2022

Lifting Operations – ‘Line of Fire’

A summary of various incidents related to Lifting Operations where vessel crew were in the ‘Line of Fire’

Number: 22-12 Dated: 10/11/2022

Hand Injury Incident

Serious hand injury to a seafarer whilst using a knife.

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