Safety Flash
Marine Safe Australia – Hand injuries
Marine Safe Australia – Hand injuries
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 15/14
- Hand and Finger InjuriesMachinery and Equipment
- Crushing and pinch pointsEntanglementHand and finger injuries
- Inspection and maintenance
- LadderRotating machinery
- Machine guarding
Summary
This flash summarises three hand injuries: squeezing at a folding ladder hinge, an index-finger fracture and deep laceration involving an unguarded generator V-belt, and partial thumb amputation while manually rotating an air-compressor belt assembly to check tension. The cases highlight hinge and belt–pulley trapping hazards.
Classifications: Crushing and pinch points; crush hazards; pinch points.
Classifications: Entanglement; caught in machinery; drawn into machinery.
Classifications: Hand and finger injuries; finger injury; hand injury.
Classifications: Inspection and maintenance; asset inspection; equipment maintenance.
Classifications: Ladder; ladders.
Classifications: Rotating machinery; rotating equipment.
Classifications: Machine guarding; machinery guards; machine guards.
Summary
Several incidents involved hands or fingers being caught in ladder hinges and unguarded or manually rotated belt drives.
IMCA SF 15/14. Themes: hand and finger injuries, machinery and equipment.