OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14306849
WIRE ROPE,CAUGHT BY,SCRAP METAL,CONVEYOR,STRUCK BY,FLYING OBJECT
Event description
Employee struck and killed by cable
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 and a helper were positioned at the foot of a conveyor that ran up t the way back down to the foot of the conveyor, where it had been caught unnotice d in a crevice in a metal scrap bin. Before employees could act, the cable detac hed from the metal bin and swung, striking Employee #1 and causing multiple inju ries. He was killed. o a pulverizer. Their assignment, as usual, was to sort pieces of unsuitable (to o heavy or large) scrap from the suitable scrap that would then be permitted to travel up the conveyor where it would be crushed. A very long cable which appear ed to be telephone strand wire, was twisted and kinked throughout a large load o f scrap metal being sorted. They spent a considerable amount of time trying to r emove the cable from the scrap pile. Finally it was decided that the cable would be allowed to run up the conveyor along with the suitable scrap. But one end of the cable caught inside the pulverizer and the length of cable pulled taut all
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 39 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 27
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 11
- Environmental factor
- 5
- Task assigned
- 1
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