OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14443535
FRACTURE,PRINTING PRESS,WORK RULES,LOCKOUT,ROLLER--MACH/PART,CAUGHT BETWEEN,PRESS OPERATOR,UNTRAINED,FOOT
Event description
Employee's feet caught in feed rolls
Investigation abstract
Employee #1, an assistant die press operator, was assigned to work as a helper o ent into the feed rolls of the machine, which continued running until the machin e was cut off by another operator. Employee #1 had informed her foreman that she was not trained for this job, but was told to do it anyway. n the S and S printer slotter. After about 2 hours on the job, the regular slott er operator told her they were going to clean the ink rolls and showed her how t o do it. After a short period of time, the operator told Employee #1 to cut the machine on and move the rolls, and to watch out for the kicker (a 2 in. by 2 in. angle iron attached to the feed chains on the table where she was standing). Mo ving the rolls is normally done with a job switch, but when started the machine was in the run mode, which meant all parts of the machine were operational. The kicker bar struck Employee #1 behind her feet, knocking her backward. Her feet w
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 24 F
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 16
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 26
- Occupation code
- 889
- Human factor
- 18
- Environmental factor
- 1
- Task assigned
- 2
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