NDTG issues safety alert after operator suffers horrific eye injury.
During a recent training course hosted by the UK’s National Demolition Training Group, one of the candidates gave a graphic report of a serious accident in which he had lost the use of one eye.
Whilst tracking the mobile crusher across the site to the workplace using the remote control unit the crusher picked up a piece of metal left in the ground following the removal of a small sign post. The piece of metal was ejected from the machine tracks with some force striking the operator in the eye. The operator did not think much of it at first but a few minutes later the optical fluid had drained from his eye and he lost his sight completely.
When attending hospital the piece of metal was removed from his skull only millimeters away from his brain. The operator is lucky to be alive but he will never recover the sight of one eye.
“All of this could have been prevented by wearing safety glasses,” says NDTG chief executive Howard Button. “All operators, banksman and any one working near a machine should wear safety glasses at all times. You never know when an accident might happen.”
