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OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14466544

WORK RULES,CLEANING,MIXER,LOCKOUT,STRUCK BY,COMMUNICATION

Event
WORK RULES,CLEANING,MIXER,LOCKOUT,STRUCK BY,COMMUNICATION
Linked inspection
No inspection record linked to this accident's victims.
Summary number
14466544
Report ID
626300

Event description

Employee killed when struck by blades of large blender

Investigation abstract

Employee #1 was cleaning blender #3 while his coworker went to prepare blender # 4 for a new batch. When Employee #1 finished with blender #3, he went to help se t up blender #4, but did not let his coworker know he was there. Employee #1 beg an to clean the bowl of blender #4, and was out of sight of the controls. When t he coworker went to the controls to jog the blender, Employee #1 was struck by t he blades. He was killed.

Victim

  1. #1 Fatality Age 29 M

    Nature of injury
    12
    Part of body
    13
    Event type
    1
    Source
    26
    Occupation code
    999
    Human factor
    13
    Environmental factor
    1
    Task assigned
    1

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