If the operator would of been at his station he would of noticed the the problem and potentially avoided the boom collapse! Fair enough it had saved his life as a result of the operator not being in his station however from a HSE & operating point of view he should of been at his station when the Gantry was booming down to avoid situations like this from occuring. It was also lucky that none of the Ships crew members were not injured in this accident.

It was quite likely a structural failure, and he wouldn't have any way of stopping the boom collapse.
There are a lot of us on here that work in the Industry.
As for Crew Members not being hurt, thank God NO-ONE was injured or worse, killed.
It was a quite unprecidented event that we hope will never happen here again.