OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14307433
VAC - U - PACK INCORPORATED
RIVERDALE, NJ·
Event description
Employee's jaw fractured between forming machine parts
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was standing in the point of operation area of a dry pole thermo vac uum forming machine, drilling holes in a plastic mold, when he activated the cla mping frame, which was in the manual mode. He attempted to escape by going under the machine barrier guard, but the front section of the clamping frame struck h im, forcing his head against the interior side of the barrier guard and fracturi ng his jaw. Employee #1 was hospitalized. A lockout procedure in the control sys tem would have prevented the clamping frame from being activated.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 26 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 9
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 26
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 6
- Environmental factor
- 4
- Task assigned
- 1
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