First Aid – Back Pain While Opening Pit

First Aid – Back Pain While Opening Pit
163-2019
  • Contributing Factors: Human Factors, Manual handling, Safety Culture
  • Categories: Injury / Fatality
  • Tags: Still Live
  • Publication Date: 15th October 2019

Operator suffered back injury while lifting a hydrant pit lid that was jammed. Pressure to complete the operation due to waiting aircraft. Pit lid may have been air-locked or affected by cold weather.

After medical assessment this was not a lost time injury.

Back injury

First aid

hydrant pit lid

into-plane

pressure