Safety Flash
LTI – forklift knocked spooler bar onto person’s leg
LTI – forklift knocked spooler bar onto person’s leg
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 02/24
- Control of WorkLine of FireVehicles and Driving
- Line of fire
- Vehicles and driving
- Alarm managementRisk assessmentSafety communication
Summary
A reversing forklift struck a spooler bar resting on wooden chocks at a third-party yard, causing it to roll onto a worker’s leg. The flash discusses unsuitable bar provision, combined supervisory roles and ineffective sensor positioning. Actions addressed risk assessments, banksman use, collision-warning systems and reversing cameras.
Classifications: Line of fire; struck-by hazards.
Classifications: Vehicles and driving; driving; road transport.
Classifications: Alarm management.
Classifications: Risk assessment; hazard assessment.
Classifications: Safety communication; toolbox talk; toolbox talks.
Summary
While helping with spooling operations at a third-party yard, a person was injured in the lower leg.
IMCA SF 02/24. Themes: control of work, line of fire, vehicles and driving.