Safety Alert
Safety Alert 420 - Employee Injures Hand in Rotating Equipment
Safety Alert 420 - Employee Injures Hand in Rotating Equipment
- BSEE
- Safety Alert
- BSEE Safety Alert 420
- Hand and Finger InjuriesMachinery and Equipment
- Crushing and pinch pointsEntanglementHand and finger injuries
- Inspection and maintenance
- Rotating machinery
- Job safety analysisLockout and tagoutOperating and work proceduresStop-work authority
- Upstream oil and gas
Summary
A mechanic responding to an after-hours compressor shutdown entered the unit while its cooling fan was slowing. Placing his hand on the belt pulled him into a sheave, fracturing two fingers. The alert recommends considering reviews of after-hours work controls, including job safety analysis, lockout/tagout and stop-work practices.
Classifications: Crushing and pinch points; crush hazards; pinch points.
Classifications: Entanglement; caught in machinery; drawn into machinery.
Classifications: Hand and finger injuries; finger injury; hand injury.
Classifications: Inspection and maintenance; asset inspection; equipment maintenance.
Classifications: Rotating machinery; rotating equipment.
Classifications: Job safety analysis; JSA; job hazard analysis; JHA.
Classifications: Lockout and tagout; LOTO; lockout/tagout.
Classifications: Operating and work procedures.
Classifications: Stop-work authority; stop work; stop-work intervention.
Classifications: Upstream oil and gas; oil and gas extraction; upstream petroleum.
BSEE Safety Alert 420. Themes: hand and finger injuries, machinery and equipment.