OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14476360
SCREEN,UNSECURED,COAL,JAMMED,CRUSHED,COAL CRUSHER
Event description
CRUSHED BY COAL CRUSHER SCREEN
Investigation abstract
ON AUGUST 17, 1984, AT APPROXIMATELY 11:00 AM, EMPLOYEE #1 WAS BREAKING UP PACKE -UP ON THE BACK WALL WHEN THE SCREEN BROKE FREE, SWUNG, AND PINNED HIM AGAINST T HE BACK WALL OF THE CHUTE. HE WAS FATALLY INJURED. D COAL IN A CHUTE UNDER A COAL CRUSHER. HE WAS USING A PNEUMATIC CHISEL. THE COA L BUILD-UP HAD JAMMED THE AMERICAN PULVERIZER COAL CRUSHER TYPE AC-BG MACHINE MO DEL #7J. EMPLOYEE #1 WAS STANDING ON A STEP LADDER PLACED IN THE CHUTE. THE SCRE EN ASSEMBLY THAT THE COAL IS FORCED THROUGH WAS RESTING ON THE PACKED COAL, NOT PROPERLY SECURED. EMPLOYEE #1 AND HIS FOREMAN WERE WORKING UNDER THE ASSUMPTION THAT THE CRUSHER SCREEN WAS SUPPORTED BY THE CHAINS USED TO RAISE AND LOWER THE SCREEN DURING THE OPERATING MODE. EMPLOYEE #1 HAD ELIMINATED THE COAL BUILD-UP O N ONE SIDE WALL AND HALF OF THE BACK WALL. HE WAS WORKING ON THE REMAINING BUILD
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 27 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 5
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 26
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 18
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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