Safety Flash
Diver safety – high pressure water jetting
Diver safety – high pressure water jetting
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 05/11
- DivingMachinery and EquipmentPressure Systems
- Line of fireMechanical failurePressure systems
- Diving operations
- Hand tools
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Summary
This safety flash highlights a diver’s serious arm injury during high-pressure water jetting. Detachment of the gun’s retro diffuser tube allowed the full force of the retro jet to penetrate the arm. It refers readers to Australian NOPSA Safety Alert 46.
Classifications: Line of fire; struck-by hazards.
Classifications: Mechanical failure; equipment failure.
Classifications: Pressure systems; stored pressure; pressurised systems; pressurized systems.
Classifications: Diving operations; diving; commercial diving.
Classifications: Hand tools; hand-held tools; handheld tools.
Summary
A detached diffuser tube allowed a high-pressure water jet to penetrate a diver’s arm.
IMCA SF 05/11. Themes: diving, machinery and equipment, pressure systems.