OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14427165
LOUISIANA PACIFIC CORP.
OLATHE, CO·
Event description
Employee injured when crushed between press and guardrail
Investigation abstract
Employee #1, a line technician in a waferboard manufacturing plant, was doing mi nor maintenance on the loader of a waferboard press. He edged around the end of a guardrail to lubricate a sticking dog that held the bottom tray of the loader in place. When the hydraulic waferboard press opened, its hot oil pipes moved do wnward and caught Employee #1 against the guardrail. He suffered crushing chest injuries and collapsed lungs, for which he was hospitalized. When the press was fully opened, its pipes reached within 2 inches of the end of the guardrail wher e Employee #1 was standing.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 23 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 5
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 26
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 4
- Task assigned
- 1
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