1. During an inspection at a Marunda, Indonesia facility, a worker suffered a foot fracture when a 1.75" metal bar slipped and struck his foot while being manually installed for a pull test.
2. The incident occurred due to a lack of dropped object training, no work method available for the pull test, and poor communication during task execution.
3. Immediate corrective actions included taking the injured worker to the hospital, stopping all work to conduct a safety stand-down, and developing a work method for future pull tests.
1. During an inspection at a Marunda, Indonesia facility, a worker suffered a foot fracture when a 1.75" metal bar slipped and struck his foot while being manually installed for a pull test.
2. The incident occurred due to a lack of dropped object training, no work method available for the pull test, and poor communication during task execution.
3. Immediate corrective actions included taking the injured worker to the hospital, stopping all work to conduct a safety stand-down, and developing a work method for future pull tests.
1. During an inspection at a Marunda, Indonesia facility, a worker suffered a foot fracture when a 1.75" metal bar slipped and struck his foot while being manually installed for a pull test.
2. The incident occurred due to a lack of dropped object training, no work method available for the pull test, and poor communication during task execution.
3. Immediate corrective actions included taking the injured worker to the hospital, stopping all work to conduct a safety stand-down, and developing a work method for future pull tests.
Summary of Incident: Incident with RWC classification occured at Marunda - Jakarta.
This is an Dropped Object incident Date: 02 July 2015 PSL: HPS Location: Marunda - Indonesia RHS no: 663942 Case Classification: RWC The CT crew where preparing CT equipment for inspection by quality inspector. During the rig up process for the CT injector a 1.75"strraight bar was required to be installed to conduct a pull test and snub test. The crane was busy shifting N2 tanks around and had blocked the access to use either the crane or a fork lift to install the bar. The CT crew decided to try to manually install the bar because of the dead line to get equipment ready, during the attempt to install the bar they decided that it was to heavy and could not be done safely by hand. So during the operation of laying the bar down the injured person was standing on the ground to help guide the bar down when it slipped from the personnel onto top of the injector and the blunt end of the bar striking the injured person on the laced up area of his work boots .
Consequence: Resulted in foot getting fracture but no requiring surgery.
Causes: ▌ Lack of dropped object training ▌ No pull test work method available. ▌ Poor communication prior and during the execution of the task Corrective actions: <immediate actions> ▌ Take the Injured Personnel to hospital for medical treatment ▌ Stop the working activities in BSD and Marunda then perform safety stand-down with the full team to discuss the initial findings of the incident
Preventive actions: <ensure that the incident is not repeated>
▌ Ensure competency of crew to undertake the task through refresh or re-assign on DROPS Awareness Training and JSA Training ▌ Develop Work Method for Pull Test ▌ Socialize lesson learned and check list for pull test job 1