Safety Alert
Caught Between Spooling Cable Results in an Injury
Caught Between Spooling Cable Results in an Injury
- IADC
- Safety Alert
- IADC Alert 06-14
- Line of Fire
- Crushing and pinch points
- Manual handling
- Rotating machinery
- Port and quayside
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Summary
A dockside crew transferred multiplex control cable between reels by hand. After the reel became too heavy, a crane-assisted method was devised but not used by the following crew because of wind. Manual rotation resumed, trapping a worker’s arm between the reel ribs and frame and causing a compound forearm fracture.
Classifications: Crushing and pinch points; crush hazards; pinch points.
Classifications: Manual handling; manual lifting.
Classifications: Rotating machinery; rotating equipment.
Classifications: Port and quayside; quayside; harbour; harbor.
Summary
A worker was injured after becoming caught between a spooling cable and equipment.
IADC Alert 06-14. Themes: line of fire.