OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14503908
STRUCK AGAINST,JAMMED,CRUSHED
Event description
EMPLOYEE KILLED WHILE CLEARING JAM INSIDE PALLETIZER
Investigation abstract
The employee, who worked for the Coca Cola Bottling Company of Mid America Incor porated, was operating a high-speed palletizer. She entered the machine to clear a jam, and apparently broke the light beam that triggered the rake bar. She was killed after being struck by the rake bar, and pinned between it and the pallet izer frame.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 27 F
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 26
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 18
- Environmental factor
- 1
- Task assigned
- 1
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