Safety Flash
Worker suffers hand injury
Worker suffers hand injury
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 17/17
- Hand and Finger InjuriesLine of FireMachinery and Equipment
- EntanglementHand and finger injuriesMechanical failure
- Rotating machinery
- Operating and work procedures
Summary
A worker’s hand became entangled with a rotating metalwork lathe workpiece, leading to surgical amputation of part of his left index finger. The flash highlights unsafe hand application of emery cloth and a previously reported faulty emergency footbrake on a lathe that remained in service.
Classifications: Entanglement; caught in machinery; drawn into machinery.
Classifications: Hand and finger injuries; finger injury; hand injury.
Classifications: Mechanical failure; equipment failure.
Classifications: Rotating machinery; rotating equipment.
Classifications: Operating and work procedures.
Summary
The UK Health & Safety Executive (UK HSE) reports that a company was fined after a worker suffered a serious hand injury after a machinery incident.
IMCA SF 17/17. Themes: hand and finger injuries, line of fire, machinery and equipment.