Safety Flash
UK HSE: Poor control of work – worker suffered serious injuries
UK HSE: Poor control of work – worker suffered serious injuries
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 05/22
- Control of WorkIsolationMachinery and EquipmentPermit to Work
- EntanglementHand and finger injuries
- Inspection and maintenance
- Energy and process isolationOperational supervisionPermit to work
Summary
This safety flash describes serious hand and arm injuries during conveyor repair when the line restarted. The supervisor became distracted before completing the permit to work and isolation. It reports the supervisor’s sentencing for safety breaches and highlights failure to implement company procedures for these controls.
Classifications: Entanglement; caught in machinery; drawn into machinery.
Classifications: Hand and finger injuries; finger injury; hand injury.
Classifications: Inspection and maintenance; asset inspection; equipment maintenance.
Classifications: Energy and process isolation; isolation; energy isolation.
Classifications: Operational supervision.
Classifications: Permit to work; PTW; work permit.
Summary
An individual supervisor – not the company – has been sentenced for safety breaches after a worker became entangled in a conveyor belt sustaining serious injuries to his hand and arm.
IMCA SF 05/22. Themes: control of work, isolation, machinery and equipment, permit to work.