The Aluminium
Plant Safety Blog has posted incidents involving forklift trucks and pedestrians,
maintenance personnel, molten metal, etc. Those interactions are acknowledge as
hazards. Sometimes the hazard of lifting and moving an object is lessened or
ignored. Here is a recent incident reminding us of the hazard of lifting and
transporting an object:
The Ministry of Labor
in Canada is investigating an industrial accident at a stamping company.
Emergency
responders were called to the incident on morning during the week of January
28, 2018.
The ministry of
labor says it was reported that a die allegedly slipped from a forklift and
injured a worker’s hand. Emergency services were called and the worker was
transported to hospital, treated and released.
A ministry
inspector has been assigned and the investigation is ongoing.
We pray that the
injured worker recovers fully from his injuries and is able to resume his/her
duties in the near future.
There is a lack of
information with this news article. Regardless, we feel that the reader can
take this post back to their plant and look at their forklift trucks and
imagine scenarios where a load could fall off the forks. If you do imagine a
scenario you then need to prevent or mitigate that scenario from injuring or
killing someone.
The Aluminium Times
had an articles about forklift safety.
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