104,543Records 70,659Employers 84,666Hospitalizations 27,563Amputations 2015-01-01 2025-09-30
Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14298061

LOCKOUT,ROLLER--MACH/PART,CRUSHED,SAFETY BAR,LEG

Event
LOCKOUT,ROLLER--MACH/PART,CRUSHED,SAFETY BAR,LEG
Linked inspection
No inspection record linked to this accident's victims.
Summary number
14298061
Report ID
352440

Event description

LEFT LEG CRUSHED BETWEEN TABLE AND ROLLER

Investigation abstract

EMPLOYEE #1 HAD REMOVED THE COVER FROM AN ELECTRICAL CONTROL BOX ON A FLOOR JOIS T FABRICATION MACHINE. HE WANTED TO CHECK SOME SWITCHES. AS HE TRIED TO REPLACE THE COVER HE COULD NOT REACH THE TOP OF THE CONTROL BOX. HE THEN CLIMBED ONTO TH E TABLE AND LEANED OVER THE SAFETY BAR TO REACH THE ELECTRICAL CONTROL BOX COVER . AS HE REPLACED THE COVER THE MACHINE STARTED FORWARD. HIS LEFT LEG WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN THE TABLE AND A ROLLER. THE SAFETY BAR HAD BEEN RAISED ABOVE THE OPENING AND THE SAFETY SWITCHES ON THE SAFETY BAR DID NOT OPERATE.

Victim

  1. #1 Hospitalized Age 20 M

    Nature of injury
    1
    Part of body
    11
    Event type
    2
    Source
    26
    Occupation code
    519
    Human factor
    9
    Environmental factor
    4
    Task assigned
    1

Codes shown verbatim from OSHA's accident-investigation database. A human-readable decoder is coming in a future release once the accident_lookup2 dictionary is loaded.