OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14470140
ENAMEL PRODUCTS & PLATING COMPANY
MCKEESPORT, PA·
Event description
One killed, two injured in fall when work table collapses
Investigation abstract
Employees #1 through #3 were standing on a table, changing the separator rolls o the equipment where the separator roll was located; he was hospitalized. The tab le had no safety stop, safety leg, or other safety devices in its hydraulic syst em. n a 60 in. slitter. The table was supported in a horizontal position by a hydrau lic cylinder and ram, which were located under the table and the forward section . The separator roll slipped from the slitter helper's hand and fell into the ma chine, breaking the hydraulic connection to the cylinder and ram that supported the table. This caused a loss of hydraulic pressure and the table dropped into t he pit. Employee #1 fell 25 ft into the pit and was killed. Employee #2 also fel l, but caught a handrail and climbed out of the pit. He injured his back, but wa s not hospitalized. Employee #3 was pinned by the hinged arm of the table under
Victims (3)
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#1 Fatality Age 56 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 24
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 18
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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#2 Non-hospitalized injury Age 50 M
- Nature of injury
- 20
- Part of body
- 3
- Event type
- 14
- Source
- 24
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 18
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
-
#3 Hospitalized Age 52 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 1
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 24
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 18
- Environmental factor
- 4
- Task assigned
- 1
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