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This incident happened due to unsafe rigging:
One sling held the load at the end and one sling in the middle of the pipe.
Fortunately there were no fatalities.

Lesson learned: Rigging study?

Fortunately there were no fatalities.

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Previous non related incident :

9 die in flash fire on ship under repair in Malaysia

June 23, 2001, KUALA LUMPUR

Nine Malaysian workers died Wednesday when a ship they were repairing caught fire at a dockyard of Malaysian Shipyard and Engineering Sdn. Bhd. (MSE) in Johor State, a company spokesman said Wednesday.

MSE spokesman Roslina Razlan said the workers were about to complete repair work on a Monrovia-registered tanker at Pasir Gudang port in southern Johor State when a flash fire erupted in one of the ship’s tanks around 10:20 a.m.

The ship is owned by a Hong Kong company.

According to the New Straits Times online edition, at the time of the fire, workers were about to finish laying new pipes and changing plates, with some welding work being done in one a storage compartment measuring 12 meters square.

The tanker was scheduled to leave port Thursday.
”They were trapped and could not find their way out of the smoke-filled ship’s belly,” the official news agency Bernama quoted Johor police officer Idris Ismail as saying.

It took 37 firemen 10 minutes to extinguish the fire.

”MSE has initiated a thorough investigation to establish the cause of the incident. Meanwhile, MSE is providing the necessary assistance to families of the victims,” the company said in a statement.

MSE is 43% owned by Malaysia International Shipping Corp., the country’s largest shipping company.

It repairs about 100 ships a year. The Wednesday tragedy was the worst in the company’s 28-year history.