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Incident Date: | Date of incident not available. |
Summary: | 48volt AC feed cable to the lifeboat armoured braiding had corroded, the cores inside had parted within their individual insulation. |
Incident consequences (potential or actual): | No details available. |
Cause of accident or incident: | No details available. |
Activity Location: | Fixed Installation |
Activity Type: | Maintenance |
Description: | During a lifeboat drill a coxswain noticed a light had failed within the lifeboat. Detailed fault finding led to the discovery that a 48volt AC feed cable to the boat had corroded armoured braiding and that the cores had parted inside their individual insulation. This wear was due to cable movement in wind due to too much slack and the cable rubbing against a steel handrail. Eventually the batteries would have depleted and the boat would not have started in the event of an emergecny situation. The other lifeboats were checked and similar damage was found on the C boat (to a lesser degree) and some chaffing was evident on boats A and D. |
Specific Equipment: | No details available. |
Lessons Learnt: | Planned maintenance was thorough but did not identify this latent hazard. Coxswain external checks identified the fault . This near miss report
reinforces the importance of thorough visual inspections in relation to all of the external & internal lifeboat operational systems. |
Task Description: | No details available. |
Recommendations: | To prevent recurrence the cables are to be re-routed slightly and dressed away from the source of the damage on all of the lifeboats.
Manufacturer/Installer to be advised of this platform installation issue. |
Contact Details: | Britannia SEQA Co-Ordinator - 01224 827211 |
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| Posted: 22/12/2004 |
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