Safety Flash
Trip and fall down hotel stairs causing serious wrist injury
Trip and fall down hotel stairs causing serious wrist injury
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 19/20
- Human FactorsSlips, Trips and Falls
- Human factorsSlips, trips and falls
- Fall prevention
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Summary
An employee travelling on business fell while descending hotel stairs, sustaining multiple fractures and a dislocated left wrist requiring surgery. The account identifies mobile phone use and failure to hold the handrail, and stresses avoiding phone use, maintaining contact where possible and remaining attentive on stairs.
Classifications: Human factors; human performance; ergonomics.
Classifications: Slips, trips and falls; same-level falls.
Classifications: Fall prevention; edge protection; guardrails.
Summary
Whilst engaged in business travel, an employee of one of our members slipped and fell when descending a hotel staircase
IMCA SF 19/20. Themes: human factors, slips, trips and falls.