Safety Flash
First aid injury: Contact with spinning spooler arm
First aid injury: Contact with spinning spooler arm
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 01/13
- Line of FireMachinery and Equipment
- Hand and finger injuriesHuman factorsLine of fire
- Lifting operations
- HoseRotating machinery
- Human-centred designJob safety analysisRisk assessment
- Vessel
Summary
A technician sustained light bruising when a spooler handle spun during crane recovery of a hydraulic grapple and pipe section aboard a vessel. Heave tightened hydraulic hoses with insufficient slack. The flash examines body positioning and gaps in task assessment, highlighting automatic spooling and changes to recovery risk assessment.
Classifications: Hand and finger injuries; finger injury; hand injury.
Classifications: Human factors; human performance; ergonomics.
Classifications: Line of fire; struck-by hazards.
Classifications: Lifting operations; load lifting; hoisting.
Classifications: Hose; flexible hose.
Classifications: Rotating machinery; rotating equipment.
Classifications: Human-centred design.
Classifications: Job safety analysis; JSA; job hazard analysis; JHA.
Classifications: Risk assessment; hazard assessment.
Classifications: Vessel; aboard ship; onboard vessel.
Summary
A member has reported an incident in which a spinning handle on a spooler arm hit someone on the upper arm, wrist and knuckles, causing light bruising.
IMCA SF 01/13. Themes: line of fire, machinery and equipment.