Safety Alert
Cement Unit Agitator Severs Fingers
Cement Unit Agitator Severs Fingers
- IADC
- Safety Alert
- IADC Alert 19-01
- Hand and Finger InjuriesMachinery and Equipment
- Hand and finger injuries
- Inspection and maintenance
- Rotating machinery
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Summary
An alert describes a cementer losing three fingers on his left hand while washing down a cement unit after a first-stage cement job. His hand was inside the mini batch tank sampling outlet while the agitator ran; dried cement on its upper flange severed the fingers. Investigation remained in progress.
Classifications: Hand and finger injuries; finger injury; hand injury.
Classifications: Inspection and maintenance; asset inspection; equipment maintenance.
Classifications: Rotating machinery; rotating equipment.
IADC Alert 19-01. Themes: hand and finger injuries, machinery and equipment.