Safety Flash
LTI: Finger injury during work with rotating machinery
LTI: Finger injury during work with rotating machinery
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 02/19
- Control of WorkHand and Finger InjuriesMachinery and EquipmentPersonal Protective Equipment
- EntanglementHand and finger injuries
- Personal protective equipmentRotating machinery
- Risk assessmentSafety communication
Summary
An electrician suffered serious finger injuries when a cotton glove became entangled in a pillar drill while enlarging a cable shoe hole without properly securing the workpiece. The flash identifies absent risk assessment and toolbox discussion, ignored signage and rushing, and advises against gloves and loose clothing around rotating machinery.
Classifications: Entanglement; caught in machinery; drawn into machinery.
Classifications: Hand and finger injuries; finger injury; hand injury.
Classifications: Personal protective equipment; PPE; personal protection equipment.
Classifications: Rotating machinery; rotating equipment.
Classifications: Risk assessment; hazard assessment.
Classifications: Safety communication; toolbox talk; toolbox talks.
Summary
A worker’s glove became entangled in a drill while holding an unsecured cable shoe, causing serious finger injuries.
IMCA SF 02/19. Themes: control of work, hand and finger injuries, machinery and equipment, personal protective equipment.