Safety Flash
Finger injury during loading operations
Finger injury during loading operations
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 03/05
- Hand and Finger InjuriesLifting OperationsLine of Fire
- Crushing and pinch pointsHand and finger injuriesHuman factors
- Lifting operations
- Lifting accessoriesPersonal protective equipment
- Job safety analysisOperating and work proceduresSafety communication
Summary
A worker’s little finger was crushed while two operatives removed an axle weighing some 250 kg from a reel using a rope and forklift. The flash examines unexpected downward movement, omitted lifting equipment, reliance on unwritten practice and absent work instructions, despite completed job safety analysis and toolbox talks.
Classifications: Crushing and pinch points; crush hazards; pinch points.
Classifications: Hand and finger injuries; finger injury; hand injury.
Classifications: Human factors; human performance; ergonomics.
Classifications: Lifting operations; load lifting; hoisting.
Classifications: Lifting accessories; lifting gear; rigging gear.
Classifications: Personal protective equipment; PPE; personal protection equipment.
Classifications: Job safety analysis; JSA; job hazard analysis; JHA.
Classifications: Operating and work procedures.
Classifications: Safety communication; toolbox talk; toolbox talks.
Summary
IMCA has received a report of an incident wherein a worker’s finger was crushed.
IMCA SF 03/05. Themes: hand and finger injuries, lifting operations, line of fire.