OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14340574
CHAMPION INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
WAYCROSS, GA·
Event description
Employee killed when caught by rotating shaft
Investigation abstract
At approximately 4:15 a.m. on January 5, 1988, Employee #1 was discovered hangin el by the fuel jam. g by his right leg from a horizontal 1 inch diameter rotating shaft with a 2 inc h diameter universal joint. He was dead. Employee #1 had used a 5 foot stepladde r to reach an access panel at the fuel chute of a Babcock & Wilcox boiler and Mc Burney staker fire box. The firebox was clogged with wood chips and pine bark fu el, and Employee #1 needed the ladder because the rotating shaft was 7 1/2 feet above the floor. Employee #1's right arm was amputated above the elbow and his r ight leg was wrapped two or three times around the rotating shaft and universal joint. His rib cage was ripped. An air hose was still inserted in the access pan
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 61 M
- Nature of injury
- 1
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 26
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 17
- Environmental factor
- 2
- Hazardous substance
- 8880
- Task assigned
- 1
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