Reducing Commercial Fishing Deck Hazards with Engineering Solutions for Winch Design

Lincoln, Jennifer M.; Lucas, Devin L.; McKibbin, Robert; Woodward, Chelsea C.; Bevan, J

doi:10.1016/j.jsr.2008.02.027

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“…Expanding on previous engineering solutions to prevent winch entanglements, 24 prototype testing of stationary guards and auxiliary stops is currently underway with fishermen to inform development of devices that would prevent or reduce the severity of entanglements. 25 If proven to be effective and widely adopted, these mechanisms could greatly reduce the incidence of injuries due to entanglement in drum and try-net winches on commercial shrimp vessels.…”

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Work‐related mortality in the US fishing industry during 2000‐2014: New findings based on improved workforce exposure estimates

Lucas

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2017

American J Industrial Med

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Background Commercial fishing is a global industry that has been frequently classified as high-risk. The use of detailed surveillance data is critical in identifying hazards. Methods The purpose of this study was to provide updated statistics for the entire US fishing industry during 2010–2014, generate fleet-specific fatality rates using a revised calculation of full-time equivalent estimates, and examine changes in the patterns of fatalities and in risk over a 15-year period (2000-2014). Results During 2010–2014, 188 commercial fishing fatalities occurred in the US. Vessel disasters and falls overboard remain leading contributors to commercial fishing deaths. The Atlantic scallop fleet stands out for achieving substantial declines in the risk of fatalities over the 15-year study period. Conclusions This study found fatality rates in fishing fleets during 2010–2014 ranging from 21 to 147 deaths per 100,000 FTEs, many times higher than the rate for all US workers.

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Work‐related mortality in the US fishing industry during 2000‐2014: New findings based on improved workforce exposure estimates

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2017

American J Industrial Med

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“…The off-switch was out of reach of an entangled fisher; thus, the research engineers designed an emergency stop button on top of the electrohydraulic-powered winch to stop the power instantaneously. Rather than using hydraulic power, many winches used on fishing vessels in the GoM are powered mechanically by a power take-off system connected directly to the vessel engine [12]. Thus, research engineers designed and fabricated guards, and three vessel owners in the GoM agreed to test them.…”

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“…The sloshing effect of water in the hold of the vessel can affect the stability (roll) but debris can clog float monitoring devices rendering them ineffective in monitoring changing water levels in the holds. To counter this problem, engineers designed a "Slack Tank Monitor" to measure underwater pressure differences and the sloshing effect in the hold [12].…”

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Gulf of Mexico Seafood Harvesters: Part 3. Potential Occupational Risk Reduction Measures

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2018

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1. Background: Fishers face many occupational hazards that include a high risk of fatal and nonfatal injuries and a variety of adverse health effects. Our purpose is to provide an overview of potential countermeasures for the control of hazards that threaten the health and safety of Gulf of Mexico (GoM) fish harvesters. 2. Method: Search terms were used to identify relevant literature; two previous reviews regarding injuries and health risk factors also inform this review. 3. Results: Countermeasures against these hazards include winch guards, lifting devices, job redesign, non-slip decks and vessel stability controls as well as using personal flotation devices, wearing gloves and high-friction footwear, increasing sleep time and using vessel motion to assist lifting. Knowledge about secondary prevention (such as rescue, first aid and making mayday calls) is also important. Learning through experience is a crucial factor that incorporates other fishers' experiences with innovations. Fatigue and lack of sleep contribute to vessel disasters and injury-related errors. 4. Conclusions: The prevention of injuries and diseases among GoM fishers depends on a combination of focusing on work-processes, instilling a broader safety culture, engineering controls, identifying and sharing fisher innovations, promoting fall overboard prevention and protection and providing culture-based incentives, training and narrative outreach.

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“…Alaskan king crab fishing has an occupational fatality rate that is 36 times the rate of all other U.S. occupations [15,16], and for this it earns the distinction of being among the world's most dangerous professions. The season is conducted during the fall and winter months in the waters off the coast of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands.…”

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Utilization of the Suomi National Polar-Orbiting Partnership (NPP) Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) Day/Night Band for Arctic Ship Tracking and Fisheries Management

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Maritime ships operating on-board illumination at night appear as point sources of light to highly sensitive low-light imagers on-board environmental satellites. Unlike city lights or lights from offshore gas platforms, whose locations remain stationary from one night to the next, lights from ships typically are ephemeral. Fishing boat lights are most prevalent near coastal cities and along the thermal gradients in the open ocean. Maritime commercial ships also operate lights that can be detected from space. Such observations have been made in a limited way via U.S. Department of Defense satellites since the late OPEN ACCESSRemote Sens. 2015, 7 972 1960s. However, the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (S-NPP) satellite, which carries a new Day/Night Band (DNB) radiometer, offers a vastly improved ability for users to observe commercial shipping in remote areas such as the Arctic. Owing to S-NPP's polar orbit and the DNB's wide swath (~3040 km), the same location in Polar Regions can be observed for several successive passes via overlapping swaths-offering a limited ability to track ship motion. Here, we demonstrate the DNB's improved ability to monitor ships from space. Imagery from the DNB is compared with the heritage low-light sensor, the Operational Linescan System (OLS) on board the Defense Meteorological Support Program (DMSP) satellites, and is evaluated in the context of tracking individual ships in the Polar Regions under both moonlit and moonless conditions. In a statistical sense, we show how DNB observations of ship lights in the East China Sea can be correlated with seasonal fishing activity, while also revealing compelling structures related to regional fishery agreements established between various nations.

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Reducing Commercial Fishing Deck Hazards with Engineering Solutions for Winch Design

Cited by 31 publications

References 2 publications

Work‐related mortality in the US fishing industry during 2000‐2014: New findings based on improved workforce exposure estimates

Work‐related mortality in the US fishing industry during 2000‐2014: New findings based on improved workforce exposure estimates

Gulf of Mexico Seafood Harvesters: Part 3. Potential Occupational Risk Reduction Measures

Utilization of the Suomi National Polar-Orbiting Partnership (NPP) Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) Day/Night Band for Arctic Ship Tracking and Fisheries Management

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