OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14468672
CENTERVILLE CASTINGS, INC.
TITUSVILLE, PA·
Event description
EMPLOYEE KILLED WHEN STRUCK BY PIECES OF GRINDING WHEEL
Investigation abstract
AT APPROXIMATELY 12:30 PM ON JANUARY 19, 1988, EMPLOYEE #1 RETURNED FROM BREAK T PPROVED FACE SHIELD AND ENTERING EMPLOYEE #1'S MOUTH AND THROAT. HE WAS KILLED. O CONTINUE GRINDING SMALL STEEL CASTINGS. THE CASTINGS WERE HELD IN PLACE BY A V ISE ON THE WAIST HIGH WORK BENCH. EMPLOYEE #1 WAS USING A CHICAGO PNEUMATIC RIGH T ANGLE PORTABLE AIR GRINDER. IT WAS RATED AT 4500 RPM WITH A POSTED LIMIT ON TH E ID PLATE OF A SIX INCH ORGANIC WHEEL OR A FIVE INCH VITRIFIED WHEEL. THE GRIND ER WAS EQUIPPED WITH A SA1T TYPE 27 METAL WHEEL (MODEL A24R) RATED AT 6600 RPM, SIZE 9 BY 1/4 BY 8 INCHES. THE GRINDER WHEEL WAS NOT GUARDED DESPITE CAUTION WAR NINGS ON THE WHEEL AND PORTABLE GRINDER. THE WHEEL WAS ACCIDENTALLY BROKEN DURIN G USE. FLYING FRAGMENTS CAME BACK AT THE OPERATOR, SHATTERING AND PIERCING THE A
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 23 M
- Nature of injury
- 1
- Part of body
- 20
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 21
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 9
- Environmental factor
- 5
- Task assigned
- 1
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