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2025 First Alert LTI#07 Steel Fixer fell injured his arm while covering rebar bundles
A steel fixer was engaged in covering rebar bundles with an HDPE Sheet as part of routine activity. While attempting to pull the sheet into its correct position, he lost his balance, and fell onto the ground, landing heavily on his left hand. The Steel Fixer taken to site First aid centre and later transferred to Badar Al Samaa Hospital in Nizwa, where he was diagnosed with fracture on his left-hand forearm.
Before starting the task, how do you identify and assess the potential hazards involved? Are you aware of the manual handling risk associated with the task? Do Your Ensure that all the activities in industrial area are effectively supervised ? What steps do you take to make sure that everyone on site is wearing the right always PPE & wearing it correctly? How do you spot and address behaviors where workers may have become too comfortable with risk? What role do inspections and conversations play in that? Even routine tasks can lead to serious injuries when risk is not properly assessed.
HDPE sheets are provided over the plastic sheet as additional protection of the steel rebars (HDPE sheet is normally not required). Worn out hand gloves caused Inadequate grip protection. Ineffective supervision during task execution (Task required two persons, Double protection is not required). Steel Fixer has normalized the risk as the task was a routine.

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