Loose fitting harness

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Got an e-mail yesterday about an accident reguarding a loose fitting harness and I can only post the wording as the pictures will be removed if they are posted here but you will get the drift by reading it.

What happened,
An employee was wearing his safety harness too loose. At the time of the fall it took some time to rescue him from the fallen position. Due to the fact that the harness was not tight fitted to his body he was hanging in his leg supports which was squeezing his scrotum resulting in his testicles being pushed out. It took a 4 hour surgery to close the wound. Less visible on photos are 2 (on both sides) of scrotum horizontal lacerations from the straps. Unkown at this time wheather the damage is irreversable. You can imagine the pain he was going through while he was hanging in his too loose fitting harness.


It goes on about lessons learnt etc but if anyone wants the full e-mail PM me and I will forward it on but be warned you will cringe.