Safety Flash
Fatality: Trapping in machinery
Fatality: Trapping in machinery
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 03/03
- Inspection and MaintenanceIsolationLine of FireMachinery and Equipment
- EntanglementHuman factors
- Inspection and maintenance
- Personal protective equipmentRotating machinery
- Job safety analysisMachine guardingOperating and work proceduresOperational supervision
- Marine industry
- Vessel
Summary
A motorman died after ventilation suction drew his partly removed jacket and left hand into an unguarded generator pulley assembly aboard a crane vessel. The flash examines routine filter-change preparations, cramped access and inadequate guarding, and records changes to protective devices, standby arrangements, work procedures and task hazard assessment.
Classifications: Entanglement; caught in machinery; drawn into machinery.
Classifications: Human factors; human performance; ergonomics.
Classifications: Inspection and maintenance; asset inspection; equipment maintenance.
Classifications: Personal protective equipment; PPE; personal protection equipment.
Classifications: Rotating machinery; rotating equipment.
Classifications: Job safety analysis; JSA; job hazard analysis; JHA.
Classifications: Machine guarding; machinery guards; machine guards.
Classifications: Operating and work procedures.
Classifications: Operational supervision.
Classifications: Marine industry; shipping industry; maritime sector.
Classifications: Vessel; aboard ship; onboard vessel.
Summary
A motorman was fatally caught by unguarded rotating machinery while preparing to change generator filters.
IMCA SF 03/03. Themes: inspection and maintenance, isolation, line of fire, machinery and equipment.