Safety Flash
Sharp wire: injury during routine maintenance
Sharp wire: injury during routine maintenance
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 28/18
- Inspection and MaintenanceLine of FireMachinery and Equipment
- Inspection and maintenance
- Hand toolsHose
- Marine industry
Summary
A seafarer sustained an arm cut when a spanner slipped during engine exhaust maintenance, bringing his arm into contact with reinforcing wire protruding from a flexible hose. The flash describes hospital treatment and highlights pre-maintenance checks, with removal, bending back or covering of the wire as possible precautions.
Classifications: Inspection and maintenance; asset inspection; equipment maintenance.
Classifications: Hand tools; hand-held tools; handheld tools.
Classifications: Hose; flexible hose.
Classifications: Marine industry; shipping industry; maritime sector.
Summary
A protruding reinforcing wire cut a seafarer’s arm when a spanner slipped during routine engine maintenance.
IMCA SF 28/18. Themes: inspection and maintenance, line of fire, machinery and equipment.