OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14384150

GRINDER,ROTATING PARTS,WORK RULES,MIXER,CAUGHT BY,LOCKOUT,FALL,BLADE,MEAT GRINDER

1988-04-23T00:00:00

Event: GRINDER,ROTATING PARTS,WORK RULES,MIXER,CAUGHT BY,LOCKOUT,FALL,BLADE,MEAT GRINDER
Linked inspection: No inspection record linked to this accident's victims.
Summary number: 14384150
Report ID: 521400

Event description

Employee killed after falling into meat mixer/grinder

Investigation abstract

At approximately 12:10 a.m. on April 23, 1988, Employee #1 was scraping frozen m eat from the paddles inside a mixer while a coworker jogged the paddles from the platform above. Because of a power outage that night, the work was 40 minutes b ehind schedule. Employee #1 thought the scraping was done so he left the platfor m to get aspirin. Speculation is that Employee #1 was in a hurry when he got dow n from his platform, turned the mixer/grinder on in the run mode instead of the jog mode, and began scraping again. When his scraper became caught in the rotati ng paddles, Employee #1 fell into the mixer/grinder and was killed.

Victim

#1 Fatality Age 33 M

Nature of injury
21

Part of body
31

Event type
5

Source
43

Occupation code
999

Human factor
10

Environmental factor
4

Task assigned
1

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