Safety Flash
UK HSE: Employee scalped when hair trapped in a pillar drill
UK HSE: Employee scalped when hair trapped in a pillar drill
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 26/21
- Line of FireMachinery and Equipment
- Entanglement
- Rotating machinery
- Machine guardingRisk assessment
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Summary
An employee sustained life-changing scalp and ear injuries when her hair became entangled in a rotating pillar drill. The flash reports absent guarding despite a company risk assessment identifying the need for a guard, and evidence that the drill had operated unguarded for several years.
Classifications: Entanglement; caught in machinery; drawn into machinery.
Classifications: Rotating machinery; rotating equipment.
Classifications: Machine guarding; machinery guards; machine guards.
Classifications: Risk assessment; hazard assessment.
Summary
An employee suffered life-changing injuries after unguarded rotating parts of a pillar drill caught her hair.
IMCA SF 26/21. Themes: line of fire, machinery and equipment.