Mobile plant use continues to be responsible for many worker injuries in the agricultural, forestry and fishing industries.
Since 2013, there has been an average of 22 accepted workers’ compensation claims each year for injuries relating to being trapped by mobile plant. Fifty per cent of these claims involve serious injuries with five or more days off work.
In a recent safety incident, an operator of a forestry skidder at a rural property became entangled in the cable winch mechanism at the rear of the machine.
The operator could not free himself and required a traumatic surgical amputation on-site to be released from the machine.
Read this article from Worksafe Queensland on preventing similar incidents.