OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14470074
WILLOW PRODUCTS CO., INC.
CRESSON, PA·
Event description
STRUCK IN HEAD BY FLYING OBJECT
Investigation abstract
AN EMPLOYEE WAS PULLING 165, #14 CONDUCTORS THROUGH A 5-INCH-DIAMETER CONDUIT. T OF HIS HEAD, KILLING HIM. HE CONDUCTORS WERE BEING PULLED THROUGH A RUN OF 850 FEET OF CONDUIT. THE EMPLOY EE WAS STANDING AT THE PULLING END OF THE RUN WAITING FOR THE CONDUCTORS TO EMER GE. THE CONDUCTORS WERE FASTENED TO A 0.5-INCH-DIAMETER NYLON ROPE. THE ROPE HAD BEEN PULLED THROUGH BY A LEAD STRING AND THEN RUN THROUGH A PULLEY ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE ROOM TO AN ELECTRIC MOTOR-OPERATED PULLER. THE PULLEY WAS ATTACHED TO A 2-INCH-DIAMETER CONDUIT FOR SUPPORT. DURING THE PULLING OPERATION, THIS CON DUIT COLLAPSED. THE TENSION ON THE ROPE THREW THE PULLEY ACROSS THE ROOM. THE PU LLEY GLANCED OFF THE 5-INCH-DIAMETER CONDUIT AND STRUCK THE EMPLOYEE ON THE SIDE
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 49 M
- Nature of injury
- 6
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 43
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 5
- Task assigned
- 1
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