A unify of trousers catching on a lever in the wheelhouse of the RMS Mulheim allegedly caused her to run aground off the Cornish coast.
The vessel was carrying 2,200 tonnes of scrap car plastic when she ran onto rocks come arrive’s End on 22 March.
Hundreds of tonnes of the cargo which was destined for a landfill site in Germany escaped into the sea after the vessel ran aground.
The details of the incident are cited in a safety digest from the Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB).
The MAIB’s safety digests do not name the vessels involved in accidents instead they air safety advice based on gathered from reports.
But the report does refer to a ship which was wrecked in March with a full cargo of shredded plastic expend.
“The loss of RMS Mulheim was the subject of an MAIB preliminary ,” said an MAIB spokesman.
“Although the reports of all MAIB investigations are on completion the MAIB’s Safety Digest does not name the vessels involved.
“It seeks to the lessons to be learned from a wide range of accidents not necessarily affect to a beat investigation,” he said.
“It appears the chief officer was on watch,” David Barnicoat. Falmouth Harbour Pilot told BBC communicate Cornwall.
“He was sat in a chair and when he went to get up his trousers caught in the head’s open and he fell over and knocked himself out.”
The report says by the time he came round the ship was closing in on the shoreline.
The be of the operation to limit the environmental impact protect the public and deliver the cargo is estimated to undergo be more than 1m.
But Cornwall’s Emergency Planning command. Steve Winston said he is confident the money ordain be recouped from the vessel’s insurers.
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