A Master, Officer, Engineer ,boatswain, and six other crew members boarded the Vessel. While the ship was securing at Maizuru Port in Kyoto, at around 10:45 on Officer and the boatswain started shutting the hatch cover for preparation of dipature .
While checking the state of the hatch cover on the port upper deck during the end of the incubate cover, Officer saw that the rubber pack 2 for fixing the hatch cover close to the Arm that had been temporarily fixed during the past voyage .
Hence, he instructed the boatswain, who was operating the closure at the hatch cover handling stand on the starboard side of the upper deck, to stop the operation.
Officer checking the circumstance of the elastic pressing pad after the loading.But hatch cover start to move. Then, at that point, the Arm Pin tumbled off and hit his hip, so he try to check the Arm Pin got embedded. At wherein the arm pin had tumbled off, he saw that the boatswain's head got stuck among panel No. 11 (around 2.five tons), which had fallen, and panel No. 7 that is now saved withinside the drum. He shouted to group members to come, and mentioned the stevedore who arrived to the scene to call an ambulance .
The helmsman was in his room when he heard Officer A yelling and hurried to the location of the accident. He confirmed that the head of the boatswain was gotten between two hatch cover , informed to the second officer in the bridge, and called the head cook and the ordinary sailor.
The second mate reported that the boatswain was injured to the captain and after that captain went to the location of the accident. The helmsman and the chief cook lifted the boatswain to the close by gangway.
As the boatswain was in heart failure, he got chest compressions and counterfeit breath from the salvage crew that showed up close to the scene at around 11:02. At around 11:08, the salvage crew required a clinical helicopter to be dispatched. The boatswain was moved to clinic at around 12:24 by a clinical helicopter that arrived to the location around 11