OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14383947
DIXONWEB PRINTING COMPANY
DIXON, IL·
Event description
Employee killed when struck by overturned gluing machine
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 and a coworker lifted a gluing machine, changed two 2 by 4 supports from a 4 point to a 3 point suspension, and put the machine down. The machine ti pped and Employee #1 attempted to catch it but fell backward, striking his head on a ribbon bypass unit that was stored in the area. Employee #1 died of a skull fracture and multiple leg fractures.
Victim
-
#1 Fatality Age 48 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 26
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 8
- 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.