Engineer reported to have lost an arm on a North Sea wind farm

What happened

A Windpower Monthly report states that the High Court in London ruled that Siemens Gamesa's breaches of duty led to an engineer losing his arm while working on a wind farm in the North Sea. The text available to the register does not name the wind farm, give the date of the accident, or describe how the injury happened.

Contributing factors

The published report says the court found breaches of duty. The available text does not describe the task, the equipment or the sequence of events.

Lessons learned

1. Serious injury reports should record the site, date, task and equipment so other operators can learn from them.
2. Work on offshore turbines should be controlled so people cannot be injured by moving parts.
3. A reported court finding of duty breaches is a prompt to review how contractor work is planned and supervised, without treating the short report as a full account.

Source

Windpower Monthly (windpowermonthly.com)