Safety Flash
Serious hand injury during mooring operations
Serious hand injury during mooring operations
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 23/23
- Hand and Finger InjuriesLine of FireVessel and Mooring
- Crushing and pinch pointsHand and finger injuriesLine of fire
- Mooring operations
- Mooring fittingsMooring linesWinch
- Risk assessmentStop-work authority
- Marine industry
- Port and quayside
Summary
A dock worker sustained a serious hand injury while removing a mooring rope from a bollard during vessel departure preparations. The flash describes insufficient slack, rising tension at the winch and absent messenger or tail lines. It highlights inadequate planning and risk assessment, hand positioning and readiness to stop unsafe work.
Classifications: Crushing and pinch points; crush hazards; pinch points.
Classifications: Hand and finger injuries; finger injury; hand injury.
Classifications: Line of fire; struck-by hazards.
Classifications: Mooring operations; berthing; unmooring.
Classifications: Mooring fittings; cleats; bollards.
Classifications: Mooring lines; mooring rope; mooring wire.
Classifications: Winch; winches.
Classifications: Risk assessment; hazard assessment.
Classifications: Stop-work authority; stop work; stop-work intervention.
Classifications: Marine industry; shipping industry; maritime sector.
Classifications: Port and quayside; quayside; harbour; harbor.
Summary
A mooring rope tightened around a bollard and trapped a worker’s hand between ropes during departure preparations.
IMCA SF 23/23. Themes: hand and finger injuries, line of fire, vessel and mooring.