Safety Flash
LTI: Finger injury caused while working with oil drums
LTI: Finger injury caused while working with oil drums
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 09/20
- Hand and Finger InjuriesLine of FireManual Handling
- Crushing and pinch pointsHand and finger injuries
- Manual handling
- Injury reportingOperating and work proceduresRisk assessmentSafety communication
- Marine industry
- Vessel
Summary
A crew member fractured a right-hand ring finger when it became trapped between oil drums during handling aboard a vessel. The flash identifies delayed reporting and absent work procedures, recommends risk assessment and toolbox discussion, and describes an engineered drum-handling control implemented afterwards.
Classifications: Crushing and pinch points; crush hazards; pinch points.
Classifications: Hand and finger injuries; finger injury; hand injury.
Classifications: Manual handling; manual lifting.
Classifications: Injury reporting.
Classifications: Operating and work procedures.
Classifications: Risk assessment; hazard assessment.
Classifications: Safety communication; toolbox talk; toolbox talks.
Classifications: Marine industry; shipping industry; maritime sector.
Classifications: Vessel; aboard ship; onboard vessel.
Summary
A crew member suffered a fracture to the right-hand ring finger whilst arranging 200l oil drums
IMCA SF 09/20. Themes: hand and finger injuries, line of fire, manual handling.