Safety Flash
Lost time injury (LTI): Trip incident during routine task
Lost time injury (LTI): Trip incident during routine task
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 14/14
- Human FactorsLine of FireSlips, Trips and Falls
- Human factorsSlips, trips and falls
- Operational supervisionRisk assessment
- Marine industry
- Vessel
Summary
A worker undertaking a routine vessel-deck task tripped over a 20Te pad eye and injured his right shoulder and arm. The fitting was not required until the next interim mobilisation. The flash highlights inadequate hazard assessment and marking, lapses of attention during familiar work, and the importance of active supervision.
Classifications: Human factors; human performance; ergonomics.
Classifications: Slips, trips and falls; same-level falls.
Classifications: Operational supervision.
Classifications: Risk assessment; hazard assessment.
Classifications: Marine industry; shipping industry; maritime sector.
Classifications: Vessel; aboard ship; onboard vessel.
Summary
A worker tripped over an unnecessary pad eye during a routine vessel task and sustained a serious shoulder and arm injury.
IMCA SF 14/14. Themes: human factors, line of fire, slips, trips and falls.