Safety Flash
Manufacturing firm fined after worker’s arm injured in roller
Manufacturing firm fined after worker’s arm injured in roller
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 28/16
- Control of WorkIsolationMachinery and Equipment
- Entanglement
- Energy and process isolationMachine guarding
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Summary
An installation engineer sustained a broken arm after being drawn into machinery while commissioning a new conveyor belt system. This safety flash reports that the UK HSE investigation identified ineffective guarding and isolation procedures, and that the company was prosecuted and fined £170,000.
Classifications: Entanglement; caught in machinery; drawn into machinery.
Classifications: Energy and process isolation; isolation; energy isolation.
Classifications: Machine guarding; machinery guards; machine guards.
Summary
An engineer’s arm was pulled into a conveyor during commissioning because effective machine guarding and isolation procedures were absent.
IMCA SF 28/16. Themes: control of work, isolation, machinery and equipment.