FacebookTwitterEmailLinkedin IMCA draws lessons learned from an incident, described in a circular by India’s Directorate General of Shipping (DGS), involving a fatal fall from a cargo crane cabin during cleaning operations after critical safety barriers and structural protections were compromised. What happened? On a vessel at anchor awaiting berthing instructions, two crew members were tasked with cleaning the interiors of the cargo crane cabins, which required maintenance after recent cargo operations. About 30 minutes into the work, one of the seafarers fell 12m from the cabin of one of the cargo cranes to the deck below. The seafarer was fatally injured by the fall. RelatedNews One dead and four reportedly missing following U.S. strike on Iranian vessel TAIC Investigation: Ferry loses propulsion at sea near Wellington var jnews_module_21370106_0_6a03d2670487f = {"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":"21370106","include_category":"","exclude_category":"","include_author":"","include_tag":"157,1011,606","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_s