Safety Flash
MSF: Injuries on mud mixers
MSF: Injuries on mud mixers
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 14/13
- Hand and Finger InjuriesMachinery and Equipment
- Hand and finger injuriesSlips, trips and falls
- Rotating machinery
- Machine guarding
- Marine industry
- Vessel
Summary
This safety flash summarises two mud-mixer injuries on platform supply vessels. During tank cleaning, one crewman lost his footing and cut a finger through his gloves on a mixer blade. Another removed a protective cover for cleaning and rotated the blade into his leg, requiring six stitches.
Classifications: Hand and finger injuries; finger injury; hand injury.
Classifications: Slips, trips and falls; same-level falls.
Classifications: Rotating machinery; rotating equipment.
Classifications: Machine guarding; machinery guards; machine guards.
Classifications: Marine industry; shipping industry; maritime sector.
Classifications: Vessel; aboard ship; onboard vessel.
Summary
The Marine Safety Forum has published safety flash 13-27 regarding two hand injury incidents, in which crew members were injured on sharp blades on mud mixing equipment on platform supply vessels.
IMCA SF 14/13. Themes: hand and finger injuries, machinery and equipment.