Safety Alert
Broken Breaker Bar Injury with Medical Evaluation Guidance
Broken Breaker Bar Injury with Medical Evaluation Guidance
- BSEE
- Safety Alert
- BSEE Safety Alert 457
- Hand and Finger InjuriesMachinery and Equipment
- Learning from incidentsMechanical failureRegulation and legislation
- Hand tools
- First aid and medical provisionPre-use checksStop-work authority
- Upstream oil and gas
Summary
A wrongly sized breaker bar fractured during star-nut removal, causing a worker to fall into a steel beam and sustain dental and lip injuries. The alert shares tool inspection, selection, positioning and stop-work lessons, and recommends considering medical-treatment options, worker privacy and regulatory reporting obligations.
Classifications: Learning from incidents; incident learning; lessons learnt; lessons learned.
Classifications: Mechanical failure; equipment failure.
Classifications: Regulation and legislation; safety legislation; regulatory requirements.
Classifications: Hand tools; hand-held tools; handheld tools.
Classifications: First aid and medical provision.
Classifications: Pre-use checks; pre-use inspection.
Classifications: Stop-work authority; stop work; stop-work intervention.
Classifications: Upstream oil and gas; oil and gas extraction; upstream petroleum.
BSEE Safety Alert 457. Themes: hand and finger injuries, machinery and equipment.