Boiler furnace blowback leads to injury onboard

Transport Malta’s MSIU issued an investigation report on the boiler furnace blowback on the container ship ‘New Hampshire Trader’ which caused  injuries to two crew members, about 30 nautical miles from Qingdao Pilot Station, on 31 January 2018.

The incident

The vessel was on a passage from Dalian to Qingdao when the engineering OOW of the watch noticed that the auxiliary boiler was not operating normally and that several alarms had activated.

Although the electrician reset the boiler control...

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