OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14337125
WORK RULES,LOST BALANCE,CONSTRUCTION,LOCKOUT,CRUSHED,FALL,FALL PROTECTION
Event description
One employee killed, one injured in fall into pulper
Investigation abstract
Employees #1 and #2 and three coworkers were completing the installation of a sc decker roller, lost his balance as he came down to the catwalk, and stumbled in to Employee #1; or Employee #2 was already on the catwalk beside Employee #1 and both were leaning on the splash cover that had the welding basic unit on it. Th e cover gave way, bending downward far enough for the bottom edge to slip off th e sill and fall open. Employees #1 and #2 fell into the large decker. Employee # 1 was crushed and mangled to death by the decker's shredder bar. Employee #2 was pulled out and did not require hospitalization. reen on the roller of a small decker (pulper). The small decker was shut down an d locked out, but the adjacent large decker (pulper), separated from the small d ecker by a catwalk, was still in operation. Employee #1 was on the catwalk and E mployee #2 and the coworkers were on the roller of the small decker using an ult rasonic welder to install a face wire strip. The welder had "tripped out" and Em ployee #1 was trying to locate the problem on its base unit, which had been plac ed atop one of the fiberglass splash covers of the (still operating) large decke r. Witness' statements vary: Either Employee #2 got up from the top of the small
Victims (2)
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#1 Fatality Age 47 M
- Nature of injury
- 1
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 26
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 2
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#2 Non-hospitalized injury Age 66 M
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 9
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 26
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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