Safety Flash
Fatality: worker crushed between two items of moving plant
Fatality: worker crushed between two items of moving plant
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 05/18
- Line of FireSimultaneous OperationsVehicles and Driving
- Crushing and pinch points
- ExcavationVehicles and driving
- Exclusion zones
- Construction
Summary
This safety flash describes a fatal crushing between a reversing 21-tonne tracked excavator engaged in digging and a stationary dumper truck. It reports HSE advice on safeguarding and pedestrian segregation where separate activities cannot be avoided, and invites members to review traffic separation in quayside, dry dock and shipyard contexts.
Classifications: Crushing and pinch points; crush hazards; pinch points.
Classifications: Excavation; trenching.
Classifications: Vehicles and driving; driving; road transport.
Classifications: Exclusion zones; red zones; restricted access zones.
Classifications: Construction; construction industry.
Summary
A worker was fatally crushed between a reversing excavator and a stationary dumper truck in an inadequately segregated work area.
IMCA SF 05/18. Themes: line of fire, simultaneous operations, vehicles and driving.