Safety Alert
Working on Exposed Rotating Machinery Results in LTI
Working on Exposed Rotating Machinery Results in LTI
- IADC
- Safety Alert
- IADC Alert 06-38
- Machinery and Equipment
- Entanglement
- Rotating machinery
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Summary
An alert describes an operator’s entanglement while working on a prototype pipe testing fixture. A cycle/rpm counter arm attached to a rotating shaft caught his coverall sleeve, winding it around the shaft and pulling him violently around the equipment stand. He sustained multiple arm fractures.
Classifications: Entanglement; caught in machinery; drawn into machinery.
Classifications: Rotating machinery; rotating equipment.
Summary
Work on exposed rotating machinery resulted in a lost-time injury.
IADC Alert 06-38. Themes: machinery and equipment.