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Entry to enclosed space on emergency rescue vessel Viking Islay kills 3 (2007)
- FatalLogic 4y agoFrom (2007) and the linked PDF contains more details A news story about the incident: https://web.archive.org/web/20120415222940/http://maritimeaccident.org/library2/the-case-of-the-rusty-assassin/ https://web.archive.org/web/20120415222940/http://maritimeac...
- AlbertoGP 4y agoThanks for the link. > When companies make impractical rules those rules soon get ignored or re-interpreted. On the Viking Islay and other ships in the fleet, seafarers were regularly going to the anchor locker to tie off anchor chains. It wasn’t a matter of urgency yet it put them at risk. They didn’t take much notice of the sign attached to the aft bulkhead of the foc’sle store, above the access hatches to the anchor chain locker that said, in big, readable letters “Enclosed Space – No Access – Do Not Enter” because they didn’t know the risk. The ultimate cause was a surprise for me, clear in retrospect but I would not have guessed it.