Alert 09 – 11 Restricted Work Case Results from Caught Between Incident

Alert 09 – 11 Restricted Work Case Results from Caught Between Incident

WHAT HAPPENED:

The Work Group Supervisor instructed three workers to manually transfer the mud pump air duct (about 80 Kg) from cement bulk room to mud pump room through the cement unit room. When they reached the mud pump room door an additional employee (IP) decided to help with this manual lifting operation. When they attempted to land the air duct on mud pump room floor the IP’s left hand middle finger was caught between the air duct and a pipe flange caused swelling in his middle finger tip end.