10Types of Dry Dock Accidents That Can Occur in Ship’s Engine Room

1. Fire

The most common and dangerous cause of accidents during dry dock, fire can lead to disastrous damage to both ship’s properly and lives of seafarers. Some of the main sources of fire in the ship’s engine room during dry dock are:

Hot Works : With a number of hot work jobs such as gas cutting, welding etc. taking place in the engine room, there are high chances of accidents taking place. Oily rags, oil spill, flammable material etc. provide the right environment for fire during hot works. Fire can also erupt because of hot works in following areas:

• If painting or chemical work is being carried out on the adjacent plates/bulkheads
• In oil/cargo tanks are not properly cleaned and have flammable material remains
• In enclosed places are not gas freed properly
• If adjacent tanks and opposite side of the bulkheads have flammable material
• If there are sounding pipes near the hot work areas
• If oil spill is there in the area
• Welding in situ engine room plates
• During structural cutting