OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14201503
AMPUTATED,WORK RULES,CLEANING,CAUGHT BY,LOCKOUT,ARM,INATTENTION
Event description
EMPLOYEE'S ARM AMPUTATED IN "CREMAKER" MACHINE
Investigation abstract
ON 8/11/84, AT APPROX 4:45 PM, EMPLOYEE #1, A STARCH MACHINE OPERATOR, WAS IN TH PORTION OF HIS RIGHT ARM. HE RAN TO TELL ANOTHER EMPLOYEE OUTSIDE, WHO CALLED FO R HELP. EMPLOYEE #1 WAS THEN FLOWN TO SHOCK TRAUMA, UNIV. HOSPITAL. THE PLANT QU ALITY CONTROL SUPERVISOR DISENGAGED THE MACHINE TO REMOVE THE MULTIATED REMAINS OF THE ARM, WHICH WAS TAKEN TO EASTON MEMORIAL. A SECTION OF THE 3/4" WATER HOSE WAS ALSO FOUND. IT HAD APPARENTLY PULLED EMPLOYEE #1'S ARM INTO THE MACHINE WHE N HE WAS CLEANING IT. E PROCESS OF CLEANING AND RINSING THE "CREMAKER" (MACHINE USED TO CHOP CORN KERN ALS) IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE WORK AREA FOREMAN. THE FOREMAN HAD TURNED THE POWER ON TO THE "CREMAKER" SO THAT EMPLOYEE "1 COULD START RINSING IT. WHILE THE MACH INE WAS RUNNING EMPLOYEE #1 USED A 3/4" WATER HOSE TO CLEAN IT. THE FOREMAN WAS APPROX 10' AWAY, SHUTTING DOWN THE "CREAMSTYLE MAKER." THE FOREMAN HAD BENT OVER TO TURN OFF A STEAM VALVE WHEN HE HEARD A STRANGE GRINDING NOISE AND SOMEONE SA Y "OW." THE FOREMAN IMMEDIATELY SHUT OFF THE "CREMAKER" AND WENT TO THE AREA WHE RE EMPLOYEE #1 WAS WORKING. HE SAW EMPLOYEE #1 STANDING THERE WITHOUT THE LOWER
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 18 M
- Nature of injury
- 1
- Part of body
- 17
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 26
- Occupation code
- 756
- Human factor
- 9
- Environmental factor
- 2
- Hazardous substance
- 8880
- Task assigned
- 2
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