OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14562003
KURT WEISS NURSERIES INC.
CENTER MORICHES, NY·
Event description
Employee killed when caught in batch mixer
Investigation abstract
At approximately 8:30 a.m. on June 18, 1989, Employee #1 was loading bales of pe at moss into a Davis batch mixer, model #S30, from a flatbed truck. Employee #1 fell into the machine and was killed by mechanical asphyxia and blunt impact inj uries.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 33 Male
- Nature of injury
- Asphyxia (2)
- Part of body
- CHEST (5)
- Accident type
- CAUGHT IN OR BETWEEN (2)
- Source of injury
- MACHINE (26)
- Occupation
- Occupation not reported (999)
- Human factor
- SAFETY DEVICES REMOVED/INOPER. (9)
- Environmental factor
- PINCH POINT ACTION (1)
- Task assigned
- Task regularly assigned (1)
Labels are OSHA's own, from the code dictionary published with the accident-investigation file. The raw code is shown beside each one so this page can be reconciled against OSHA's bulk data. OSHA notes that nature of injury, part of body, source of injury and accident type in this file are not coded to the Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System, and that the occupation titles are not standardised — so these values are not directly comparable with the OIICS-coded severe injury reports.