Safety Alert
Improper Guarding Results in MTO
Improper Guarding Results in MTO
- IADC
- Safety Alert
- IADC Alert 10-03
- Machinery and Equipment
- Hand and finger injuries
- Inspection and maintenance
- Rotating machinery
- Machine guarding
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Summary
This alert describes a thumb injury during a check for overheating at a standby generator radiator. The employee placed his hand successively at the top, middle and bottom of the radiator. At the bottom, the unguarded fan injured his thumb, which required stitches.
Classifications: Hand and finger injuries; finger injury; hand injury.
Classifications: Inspection and maintenance; asset inspection; equipment maintenance.
Classifications: Rotating machinery; rotating equipment.
Classifications: Machine guarding; machinery guards; machine guards.
Summary
The alert describes a medical treatment case associated with improper equipment guarding.
IADC Alert 10-03. Themes: machinery and equipment.