Asked the police to host injured sailors

When two injured sailors needed the care of healthcare professionals on September night last year after an accident on board the trawler Sólborg RE-27, the responders were told that the hospital in Ísafjörður could not receive the injured until eight that morning. The hospital’s employee suggested that the police house the men until morning until they could be logged in.

Police therefore refused to accept the men and were placed in a room in the hospital with two beds. In the morning, however, no one came to visit them. The two of them who were less injured from the room went in search of staff and it turned out that no one knew about them in the hospital.

This is stated in report Investigative Accident Investigation Board.

There, the committee therefore directs the West Fjords Health Institute to have a procedure that ensures that sailors who need to search there at all hours of day receive the required care.

Worked to fishing gear

The two crew members were injured on board Sólborg on September 5 when the tow was fishing on Hornbanki north of the West Fjords. The description of the incident states that it was southwest of up to 25 meters per second in the fields. There was not much sea, only three meters of wave height and the ship moved little.

Three crew members were working on the fishing gear while the ship was on tow when a knot arrived on the back side of the ship with the result that it was thrown over the control panel side. Bobbing extends, which had been pulled back to the shutter, lay free of charge in the middle of the deck and the sailors were repairing the fishing gear when the lid threw over the control panel side of the flow where two were in between, according to the committee’s report.

The third crew member who had been working with the other two who had to put Gils in the Lengjuna, hoist in it and release the men.

« There was no relationship between the captains and those who were working on the upper deck. It was not until the men who were on the processing deck came up in the bridge 5-10 minutes after the event that the captain heard what had happened. injured in the hospital’s hospital room where he was given painkillers. « 

Did no one come to visit their

The Coast Guard was then contacted and a watchdog doctor at that institution. The doctor was sent pictures of the injuries of the injured person and the future decided to sail with him to Ísafjörður.

« The hospital in Ísafjörður was contacted and the person who was available for answers did not consider the injured person until eight in the morning. However, an ambulance was sent to the ship’s arrival to Isafjordur at 3:00 p.m.

When they arrived at the hospital, the person who was on duty could not register the men and suggested that the police house them until morning. Therefore, police declined and the men were placed in a room with two beds where they were allowed to be until tomorrow.

Therefore, the euro has directed to the West Fjords Health Institute to establish procedures to ensure that injured sailors are covered around the clock.

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« In the morning no one came to visit them and eventually the person who was less injured and then it turned out that no one knew of them. »

« It turned out that the more injured did not suffer a lasting miscarriage that is best known but has not come to work when this is written.

No rules on the receipt of sailors

The Transport Accident Investigation Board says the accident can be attributed to the fact that the bottom trawl was being worked on and not ensured that it was secured safely. « It can be considered most mild that it should not go worse, » says the report, and the captain said that the crew was aware that it should fix fishing gear that is being worked on when the weather requires it.

The Committee also draws attention to the fact that no confirmed procedures for receipt of injured sailors arriving at the hospital in Ísafjörður were present.