Safety Flash
Two industrial vehicle incidents
Two industrial vehicle incidents
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 30/17
- Lifting OperationsLine of FireVehicles and DrivingWorking at Height
- Crushing and pinch pointsFalls from heightRisk management
- Vehicles and drivingWorking at height
- Exclusion zonesFall preventionOperating and work proceduresRisk assessment
Summary
Two industrial vehicle cases describe a delivery driver fatally crushed by an overloaded forklift overturning and an employee permanently paralysed after falling from a tar laying machine’s bonnet into its hopper. The flash highlights pedestrian separation during unloading, safe work procedures, and planning and risk assessment for work at height.
Classifications: Crushing and pinch points; crush hazards; pinch points.
Classifications: Falls from height; fall from height.
Classifications: Risk management; risk evaluation.
Classifications: Vehicles and driving; driving; road transport.
Classifications: Working at height; work at height.
Classifications: Exclusion zones; red zones; restricted access zones.
Classifications: Fall prevention; edge protection; guardrails.
Classifications: Operating and work procedures.
Classifications: Risk assessment; hazard assessment.
Summary
Though these two incidents do not pertain to the marine environment, the underlying issues involved – traffic management and separation, planning and safe systems of work, risk assessment, work at height etc. – are of relevance and interest to IMCA members.
IMCA SF 30/17. Themes: lifting operations, line of fire, vehicles and driving, working at height.