A recent IMCA Safety Flash focuses on an incident in which a chief engineer suffered minor injuries in a battery explosion when disconnecting a cable from the battery, to provide lessons learned.
The IncidentThe incident occurred onboard a harbour tug. The chief engineer was planning to replace a battery disconnect switch that had failed. While disconnecting the positive terminal, both terminals were inadvertently short-circuited with a spanner and the battery exploded causing injuries to the...
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