OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14456073
MAINTENANCE,BRAKE,DUMPER,FALL
Event description
FALL FROM CAR DUMPER
Investigation abstract
Some employees were working on a chain-driven rotary car dumper, approximately 1 that one gear plate on the east side of the dumper had slipped out of place and was not engaging the drive wheel at all. This allowed the dumper to turn when th e bind was removed from the other end. The brakes apparently engaged the chains and, with the gear plates at both ends not engaged with the chains, there was no thing to hold the dumper in place. 5 feet above floor level. They were heating and cutting away a section of a meta l gear plate that had slipped loose and was causing the chain on the west side o f the dumper to bind. When the piece snapped off, the dumper turned and threw Em ployee #1 to the ground. There were two gear plates at each end of the dumper. A t least one gear plate was engaged with the drive chain at all times, to either turn the dumper or hold it in place. There was also a brake that, when set, was to hold the dumper in place. The brake, with new brake shoes, had been set befor e the employees began work on the dumper. After the accident, it was discovered
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 57 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 16
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 38
- Occupation code
- 783
- Human factor
- 14
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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