OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14478309

CLOTHING,AMPUTATED,DRILL OPERATOR,ROTATING SHAFT,WORK RULES,CAUGHT BY,CONSTRUCTION,AUGER,DRILL RIG--NON-OIL,ARM

1987-11-18T00:00:00

Event: CLOTHING,AMPUTATED,DRILL OPERATOR,ROTATING SHAFT,WORK RULES,CAUGHT BY,CONSTRUCTION,AUGER,DRILL RIG--NON-OIL,ARM
Linked inspection: No inspection record linked to this accident's victims.
Summary number: 14478309
Report ID: 111100

Event description

Employee injured when clothing catches in auger

Investigation abstract

Employee #1 and a coworker were using a mobile drilling rig, model B34, manufact ribs and his right arm had to be amputated. ured prior to 1978 by Mobile Drilling, Inc. A hollow auger about 5 feet long was attached by a coupling to a drive chuck on the machine to drill vertically into the earth. Employee #1, who was operating the machine, left the control station while the auger was slowly rotating and reached across the auger to grab his gl oves from the frame of the drilling rig. Apparently a projection of the rotating coupling caught Employee #1's sleeveless vest and pulled him into the auger. Th e auger kept continued to rotate, twisting Employee #1 around itself. The cowork er, seeing what had happened, shut down the machine. Employee #1 suffered broken

Victim

#1 Hospitalized Age 22 M

Nature of injury
1

Part of body
22

Event type
2

Source
26

Occupation code
999

Human factor
17

Environmental factor
2

Task assigned
1

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