About half of the injuries were caused by anchor winches, a third by deck winches and the remainder by other types of winches. Hands, wrists and arms were the body parts most frequently injured. (From AlaskaBeacon)
Fishing boats line a dock at Kodiak’s St. Paul Harbor on Oct. 3. A variety of winches are seen on the boats’ equipment. Entanglements in winches and the cables attached to them can cause serious injuries, but there are ways to reduce onboard risks, a new CDC study says.
Over a 20-year period, there were 125 serious injuries to Alaska fisheries from winches, including amputations and crushed bones, according to a newly published Of the reported 125 injuries, over 80% of the injuries occurred on boats fishing for salmon, with events over several gear types, the study found. Topping the gear-type list were boats using purse seines, nets that surround fish and are drawn together to pull them from the water. Reported injuries also occurred in the drift gillnet fleet and the setnet fleet, which use nets in different ways, as well as on boats that use longline baited hooks or pots to harvest fish.
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