FacebookTwitterEmailLinkedin IMCA draws lessons learned from an incident where an Able Seaman on a crew transfer vessel suffered a serious lower-back injury while manually lowering and positioning a gangway onto the quay. A member of the crew of a crew transfer vessel (CTV) badly pulled their back whilst helping with mooring operations during a vessel departure from port for an offshore wind farm. The Master was on the bridge conducting pre-departure checks, while the mate and the Able Seaman were on deck. The Mate was at the mooring station preparing to release the vessel’s lines, and Able Seaman was stowing the vessel’s gangway. RelatedNews TAIC Investigation: Ferry loses propulsion at sea near Wellington Lessons learned: The suitability of a vessel for fumigation is a critical factor var jnews_module_21362549_0_6a04464a5c44f = {"header_icon":"","first_title":"Related","second_title":"News","url":"","header_type":"heading_8","header_background":"","header_secondary_background":"","header_text_color":"","header_line_color":"","header_accent_color":"","header_filter_category":"","header_filter_author":"","header_filter_tag":"","header_filter_cpt_post_tag":"","header_filter_cpt_tribe_events_cat":"","header_filter_cpt_web_story_category":"","header_filter_cpt_web_story_tag":"","header_filter_text":"All","sticky_post":false,"sticky_post_filter":false,"post_type":"post","content_type":"all","sponsor":false,"number_post":"2","post_offset":0,"unique_content":"unique1","include_post":"","included_only":false,"exclude_post":"21362549","include_category":"","exclude_category":"","include_author":"","include_tag":"1011,606","exclude_tag":"","exclude_visited_post":false,"post_tag":"","tribe_events_cat":"","web_story_category":"","web_story_tag":"","sort_by":"latest","show_date":"","date_format":"default","date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","pagination_mode":"disable","pagination_nextprev_showtext":"","pagination_number_post":"2","pagination_scroll_limit":0,"ads_type":"disable","ads