Safety Flash
Laceration to right index finger
Laceration to right index finger
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 19/24
- Hand and Finger InjuriesLine of Fire
- Crushing and pinch pointsHand and finger injuries
- Human-centred design
- Marine industry
- Vessel
Summary
A crew member sustained a right index finger laceration while closing a workshop-container door on a vessel’s deck. Wind and vessel movement accelerated the closure, trapping the finger. Lessons address safer work-area design, door pinch points and awareness of surrounding conditions; heavy-duty automatic door closers were installed.
Classifications: Crushing and pinch points; crush hazards; pinch points.
Classifications: Hand and finger injuries; finger injury; hand injury.
Classifications: Human-centred design.
Classifications: Marine industry; shipping industry; maritime sector.
Classifications: Vessel; aboard ship; onboard vessel.
Summary
The Energeo Alliance have published a safety alert relating to a crew person who suffered a laceration to the right index finger whilst going through a door on a vessel.
IMCA SF 19/24. Themes: hand and finger injuries, line of fire.