Safety continues as a major theme at Lucas.

To further increase our emphasis on it, we’ve decided to include details of every injury that’s required medical treatment or resulted in lost time in our annual report.

Although all the sectors we operate in have inherent risks, the exemplary performance of our underground drilling team – operating in the highest-risk environment of underground mines – have set the standard we intend to see across the group, with a single medical treatment case and no lost time injuries. This is the third year they have achieved this, so it is definitely not just “good luck”.

Pipeline and HDD employees and sub-contractors had four medical treatment cases and two lost-time injuries.

Lucas Stuart employees have had a safe year, with one medical treatment case and a single lost time injury. Unfortunately some of Lucas Stuart’s sub-contractors haven’t matched this level of safety, affecting our overall performance.

The aboveground drilling teams had the group’s highest injury frequency rate, with seven lost-time injuries and two medical treatment cases.

AJ Lucas Group (employees & subcontractors)

Man-hours worked – total    1,286,779
Medical treatment cases    13
Lost time injuries (LTI)    17
Fatalities    0   
Working days lost    87
LTIFR    12.8
   

Coal technology underground drilling

Man-hours worked    44,940
Medical treatment cases    1
Lost time injuries    0
Fatalities    0
Working days lost    0
LTIFR    0

The year’s incidents – underground drilling

Underground driller: strained forearm.   

Pipelines & HDD

Manhours worked    442,033
Medical treatment cases    4
Lost time injuries        2
Fatalities    0
Working days lost    15
LTIFR    4.5

The year’s incidents: Lucas Pipelines employees

Cut by sharp steel item on pile cage, stitches required.   
Arm severely bruised by a timber pallet failing.*   
Hand caught in hydraulic ram bracket, stitches required.   
Tripped in rain effected back fill bruised hand in preventing his fall.
Subcontractors
Fainted after Q Fever vaccination.
Wire strand from wire brush embedded in thigh.*

Lucas Stuart – construction & civil

Man-hours worked    529,408
Medical treatment cases    6
Lost time injuries          8
Fatalities    0
Working days lost    27
LTIFR    15.1

The year’s incidents: Lucas Stuart employees

Cut to leg from sharp tie wire; required suturing.   
Twisted knee when changing direction suddenly.   
Grinder spark in eye; entered under safety glasses.*   

Subcontractors

Plumber: cut to leg from nail left in concrete.    
Formwork carpenter: stepped on nail.
Formwork carpenter: pinched finger between crowbar and
concrete; severe bruising.   
Formwork carpenter:  Cut to leg from sharp reinforcing bar;
required stitching.   
Plumber: cut to knee on sharp reo bar in pit.*
Carpenter: nail gun pin penetrated finger.*   
Prestress labourer: cut finger from sharp steel; stitches required.*
Formwork carpenter: pinched finger between bearer and U-jack.*
Formwork carpenter: nail flicked up hitting eye causing scratching.*
Crane dogman: tripped on reinforcing steel, placed hand out to
break fall and was cut on steel.*   
Formwork carpenter: deep cut to wrist from sharp bolt.*
    

Drilling (above ground)

Man-hours worked    270,398
Medical treatment cases    2
Lost time injuries    7
Fatalities    0
Working days lost    45
LTIFR    22.1

The year’s incidents – drilling

Rig hand: strained back.*   
Rig hand: soft tissue injury to ankle when stepping on hose.*   
Rig hand: slipped on oil, fell on sharp object required surgical
repair to knee.*   
Rig hand: strained back lifting gas cylinder.*   
Rig hand: fractured finger when heavy pipe fell on finger.*   
Rig hand: insect bite to arm.   
Rig hand: strained lower back getting out of motor vehicle.   
Mechanic: strained lower back working on vehicle.*   
Wellhead operator: using Stillson to tighten pipe, slipped and
fell, fracturing tibia.*     

* Lost-time injuries.
  All other incidents noted are medical treatment incidents.

LTIFR is the lost time injury frequency rate in accordance with Australian Standard AS 1885.1 - 1990 “Workplace injury and disease recording standard”