Safety Flash
Worker suffered crush injury while handling unstable steel plates
Worker suffered crush injury while handling unstable steel plates
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 09/26
- Hand and Finger InjuriesLine of FireManual Handling
- Crushing and pinch pointsHand and finger injuriesHuman factorsLine of fire
- Manual handling
- Operational supervisionPositive retention and reliable securingRisk assessment
Summary
A worker holding vertically balanced steel plates sustained hand, wrist and finger fractures when a plate toppled, trapping their hand and wrist. The flash examines temporary storage, removed sea fastenings, limited workspace and inadequate task risk assessment, highlighting how local conditions and past experience shaped the work.
Classifications: Crushing and pinch points; crush hazards; pinch points.
Classifications: Hand and finger injuries; finger injury; hand injury.
Classifications: Human factors; human performance; ergonomics.
Classifications: Line of fire; struck-by hazards.
Classifications: Manual handling; manual lifting.
Classifications: Operational supervision.
Classifications: Positive retention and reliable securing.
Classifications: Risk assessment; hazard assessment.
Summary
Steel plates suddenly toppled over to the side trapping a worker's left hand and wrist between a frame and an emergency stop pedestal.
IMCA SF 09/26. Themes: hand and finger injuries, line of fire, manual handling.