OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14494975
HOLLYTEX CARPET MILLS INC.
WATONGA, OK·
Event description
Employee killed when caught in nylon fiber baler
Investigation abstract
At 1:30 p.m. on September 19, 1987, Employee #1 was using a compressor, model #3 14-1220-60, serial #3311, manufactured by General Hydraulics of California, to b ale synthetic nylon fiber. He was alone at the time of the accident, but it appe ars that he started the machine and then opened the unguarded manual feed door t o remove some nylon fiber from above the ram press. He became caught between the braces of the ram and the top of the baler frame as the ram cycled to the 'up' position. Employee #1 was killed.
Victim
-
#1 Fatality Age 23 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 5
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 26
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 17
- Environmental factor
- 4
- Task assigned
- 1
Codes shown verbatim from OSHA's accident-investigation database. A human-readable decoder is coming in a future release once the accident_lookup2 dictionary is loaded.