Safety Flash
UK HSE: Worker suffers life-changing crush injuries – rotating machine
UK HSE: Worker suffers life-changing crush injuries – rotating machine
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 28/18
- Hand and Finger InjuriesLine of FireMachinery and Equipment
- Crushing and pinch pointsEntanglementHand and finger injuries
- Rotating machinery
- Machine guardingRisk assessment
Summary
An IMCA safety flash reports a printing worker being drawn into rotating rollers when a cleaning cloth became caught. Injuries included finger amputation, fractures and skin degloving. The HSE investigation identified inadequate guarding and emphasised assessing machinery risks and applying suitable guards.
Classifications: Crushing and pinch points; crush hazards; pinch points.
Classifications: Entanglement; caught in machinery; drawn into machinery.
Classifications: Hand and finger injuries; finger injury; hand injury.
Classifications: Rotating machinery; rotating equipment.
Classifications: Machine guarding; machinery guards; machine guards.
Classifications: Risk assessment; hazard assessment.
Summary
Inadequate guarding allowed a worker to be drawn into rotating rollers while cleaning machinery, causing severe hand injuries.
IMCA SF 28/18. Themes: hand and finger injuries, line of fire, machinery and equipment.