Safety Flash
Injury involving contact with a vehicle battery
Injury involving contact with a vehicle battery
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 02/03
- Electrical SafetyHand and Finger Injuries
- Electrical safetyHand and finger injuries
- Electrical isolation
- Hand tools
Summary
A safety flash describes a circumferential ring-finger burn during disconnection of a 12-volt vehicle battery. A crescent wrench slipped, contacted metal and grounded out; the worker’s gold ring contacted the wrench. The flash highlights battery burn hazards and recommends removing jewellery before work near batteries or connected equipment.
Classifications: Electrical safety; electrical hazards.
Classifications: Hand and finger injuries; finger injury; hand injury.
Classifications: Electrical isolation; electrical lockout.
Classifications: Hand tools; hand-held tools; handheld tools.
Summary
A worker suffered a severe ring-finger burn when jewellery contacted a vehicle battery and wrench.
IMCA SF 02/03. Themes: electrical safety, hand and finger injuries.