The International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA) has published its annual Safety Statistics Report, showing that ‘line of fire’ incidents remained the leading cause of lost time injuries (LTIs) among IMCA marine contractor Members in 2024, accounting for more than half (52%) of such injuries. The research, which IMCA has published each year since 1996, found that the total lost-time injury rate (LTIR) across its contributing Members’ onshore and offshore operations remained unchanged at 0.3 incidents per million hours worked. This follows steady improvements since 2010, when the LTIR was more than twice as high as recorded in 2024. Meanwhile, the total recordable injuries rate (TRIR) rose slightly (from 1.07 to 1.1 injuries per million hours worked), a pattern seen across the energy industry, although IMCA contractor Members saw a small improvement in the total recordable injury rate recorded for offshore from 1.47 injuries per million hours worked in 2023, to 1.38 in 2024.
Just over half (52%) of lost time injuries reported were ‘line of fire’ related injuries. Understanding the underlying causes of these accidents and how they can be reduced will be a priority for IMCA, working with its Members and partner organisations, in 2025. Slips and trips were the second main cause of LTIs, accounting for 22% of the total in 2024. The fatal accident rate (FAR) halved from 0.63 fatalities per 100 million hours worked in 2023, to 0.3 fatalities in 2024. For offshore workers, the rate fell from 0.41 in 2023 to 0.18 in 2024 – the lowest fatality rate ever recorded by IMCA contractor Members.
This year’s data for IMCA Safety Statistics Report 2024 was supplied by 198 of IMCA’s contractor Members, who between them submitted a record 1,015,000 hours of data. The research is available to both IMCA Members and non-Members, enabling them to benchmark their performance against similar sized companies.
Download the report: IMCA Safety Stats Reports 2024