OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14427371
PACKERS SANITATION & SERVICES, INC.
GREELEY, CO·
Event description
Employee killed in fall into moving blender
Investigation abstract
Employee #1, a maintenance worker, was standing on a platform guardrail cleaning an RMF blender in the ground beef area. He slipped and as he fell into the blen der his arm hit the START buttons on the control panel. Employee #1 was crushed and killed by the blender blades. The point of operation on the blender was not guarded and lockout procedures were not being utilized.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 33 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 26
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 13
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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