Safety Flash
UK HSE: Employee in a port suffers life changing injuries in clamp truck incident
UK HSE: Employee in a port suffers life changing injuries in clamp truck incident
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 15/21
- Line of FireVehicles and Driving
- Learning from incidentsLine of fire
- Vehicles and driving
- Exclusion zonesOperating and work proceduresOperational supervision
- Marine industry
- Port and quayside
Summary
A port employee suffered injuries requiring leg amputation after being struck by a five-tonne clamp truck in a paper reel shed. The flash describes unsafe pedestrian–vehicle interaction, inadequately reviewed supervisory activities and missed learning from earlier incidents. HSE recommends separating pedestrians through physical barriers or clear, well-supervised safe systems of work.
Classifications: Learning from incidents; incident learning; lessons learnt; lessons learned.
Classifications: Line of fire; struck-by hazards.
Classifications: Vehicles and driving; driving; road transport.
Classifications: Exclusion zones; red zones; restricted access zones.
Classifications: Operating and work procedures.
Classifications: Operational supervision.
Classifications: Marine industry; shipping industry; maritime sector.
Classifications: Port and quayside; quayside; harbour; harbor.
Summary
The UK Health and Safety Executive (HSE) fined a port following an incident in which an employee was seriously injured by a clamp truck. [Similar to a forklift, but instead of forks, a clamp truck has a hydraulic clamp attachment for handling rolls of paper.]
IMCA SF 15/21. Themes: line of fire, vehicles and driving.