Safety Flash
Two recent incidents involving injuries
Two recent incidents involving injuries
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 06/12
- Electrical SafetyHand and Finger InjuriesIsolationMachinery and Equipment
- Dropped objectsHand and finger injuriesSlips, trips and falls
- Working at height
- Grinding equipmentLadderRotating machinery
- Energy and process isolationLockout and tagout
- Marine industry
- Vessel
Summary
Two vessel incidents involved a crewman dropping an electric angle grinder after losing balance at the top of a ladder, cutting above his knee, and an engineer suffering finger lacerations when a compressor started. The compressor had not been isolated or tagged out because the task was considered a ‘two minute job’.
Classifications: Dropped objects; falling objects; DROPS.
Classifications: Hand and finger injuries; finger injury; hand injury.
Classifications: Slips, trips and falls; same-level falls.
Classifications: Working at height; work at height.
Classifications: Grinding equipment; angle grinder; grinding wheel.
Classifications: Ladder; ladders.
Classifications: Rotating machinery; rotating equipment.
Classifications: Energy and process isolation; isolation; energy isolation.
Classifications: Lockout and tagout; LOTO; lockout/tagout.
Classifications: Marine industry; shipping industry; maritime sector.
Classifications: Vessel; aboard ship; onboard vessel.
Summary
Two vessel incidents involved injury from a dropped angle grinder and an electric compressor starting while an engineer worked on it.
IMCA SF 06/12. Themes: electrical safety, hand and finger injuries, isolation, machinery and equipment.