Safety Flash
LTI – person fell from step ladder
LTI – person fell from step ladder
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 17/24
- Slips, Trips and FallsWorking at Height
- Falls from heightSlips, trips and falls
- Inspection and maintenanceWorking at height
- Ladder
- Fall preventionRisk assessment
- Marine industry
- Vessel
Summary
A worker maintaining a tool aboard a vessel lost balance when the vessel pitched and fell from an unsecured two-step ladder, fracturing a rib. The flash identifies inadequate risk mitigations and insufficiently robust equipment, and describes securing access equipment and a planned fabricated access point to replace the temporary ladder.
Classifications: Falls from height; fall from height.
Classifications: Slips, trips and falls; same-level falls.
Classifications: Inspection and maintenance; asset inspection; equipment maintenance.
Classifications: Working at height; work at height.
Classifications: Ladder; ladders.
Classifications: Fall prevention; edge protection; guardrails.
Classifications: Risk assessment; hazard assessment.
Classifications: Marine industry; shipping industry; maritime sector.
Classifications: Vessel; aboard ship; onboard vessel.
Summary
A worker fell off a 2-step ladder/hop up and was injured resulting in an LTI.
IMCA SF 17/24. Themes: slips, trips and falls, working at height.