Injury to little finger

A worker suffered an injury whilst painting an auxiliary winch drum following maintenance. While performing this work a wooden beam was used to prevent the drum from turning freely. Two painters, along with their supervisor, inspected their work area and conducted a toolbox talk before beginning to clean the winch drum base. While cleaning the auxiliary winch drum base, the painters needed to rotate the drum for better access. The two painters manually rotated the drum, one person holding it secured in position, while the other person repositioned the wooden beam to secure the drum. The two workers repeated this process twice without incident. However, the third time, one painter attempted to rotate the drum alone, as the other painter was not present. While positioning the wooden beam to secure the winch drum, the drum rotated back, trapping the his little finger between the beam and the winch base. This resulted in a broken finger.

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