Injury from a detached fairlead roller

摘要

Just after midnight, a bunker barge moored on the starboard side of a bulk carrier at anchor offport limits (OPL), with two lines and a spring forward and aft. After securing the lines, the barge crew began passing the fuel hose to the receiving ship, in winds gusting to 15kt and a maximum swell of 1.5m. Suddenly, a fairlead roller on the barge's port quarter was uprooted from its base. It hit the accommodation bulkhead with great force, then ricocheted and hit the bosun's mate.