Safety Flash
Lost time injury (LTI): Fall from height leading to multiple fractures
Lost time injury (LTI): Fall from height leading to multiple fractures
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 04/13
- Control of WorkWorking at Height
- Falls from heightMechanical failure
- Working at height
- Fall protection equipmentScaffold
- Operational supervisionRisk assessment
- Construction
Summary
A worker dismantling hanging scaffolding in a construction yard fell 16 m when a dropper slipped through loose couplers, sustaining multiple fractures. The flash examines inadequate planning, supervision and coupler checks, and recommends independent fall-arrest anchorage, inertia reels where needed and checks of safety-critical coupler tightness.
Classifications: Falls from height; fall from height.
Classifications: Mechanical failure; equipment failure.
Classifications: Working at height; work at height.
Classifications: Fall protection equipment; safety harness; fall arrest equipment.
Classifications: Scaffold; scaffolding.
Classifications: Operational supervision.
Classifications: Risk assessment; hazard assessment.
Classifications: Construction; construction industry.
Summary
A member has reported an incident in which a worker fell 16m and sustained multiple fractures.
IMCA SF 04/13. Themes: control of work, working at height.