OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14466544
INGREDIENT TECHNOLOGY CORP.
CARROLLTON, TX·
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
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#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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