OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14427371

MIXER BLADE,ROTATING PARTS,WORK RULES,CLEANING,SLIP,LOCKOUT,CRUSHED,FALL,UNGUARDED

1987-04-27T00:00:00

Event: MIXER BLADE,ROTATING PARTS,WORK RULES,CLEANING,SLIP,LOCKOUT,CRUSHED,FALL,UNGUARDED
Linked inspection: No inspection record linked to this accident's victims.
Summary number: 14427371
Report ID: 830500

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

#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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