Safety Alert: Injury resulting in amputation

 

During operations to load a container to a vessel deck, a ground lock was seen to have moved at the loading location under an incoming container. The vessel Hatch Foreman instructed the crane operator to lift the container such that the lock could be adjusted.

 

As the Foreman was attempting to adjust the lock, the other end of the container came free from its locks causing the container to land trapping the Foreman’s hand / fingers. He called immediately for the container to be lifted.

Emergency response (ER) measure were implemented, and the Foremen was transferred to hospital.

The outcome was the amputation of an index finger.

 

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We are grateful to PSS for providing details.  We acknowledge their commitment to sharing learning to benefit others.  If you have similar operations, please share this information with managers, operatives and any potentially affected third parties as appropriate.  Please also review any of your relevant operations for similar hazardous conditions, risks, and controls.  Learning content like this is highly valuable as it is based on real-world experience.  We encourage everyone with publishable information about incidents to send it to us, so that we can raise awareness across the whole industry.  Please contact us at secretariat@ichca.com; sharing your insight could save a life or prevent injury.