OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221633670

155797 - ZIPS CAR WASH, LLC

WEAVERVILLE, NC· 2024-01-13T00:00:00

Event: Blunt force trauma, Car Wash, Cleaning, E GI IV (no lockout), Entangled, Hose, Lockout, Pressure Wash, Spinning, Strangulated, Trapped, Untrained
NAICS: 811192
Inspection type: Federal Agency
Activity number: #347212458
Employer profile: 155797 - ZIPS CAR WASH, LLC
Summary number: 221633670
Report ID: 0453720

Event description

Employee is killed via strangulation in car wash

Investigation abstract

At 12:00 a.m. on January 13, 2024, an employee was cleaning the car wash tunnel trained as an authorized employee and was not instructed to lockout the equipment in the tunnel during cleaning activities. and equipment. The employee was cleaning the passenger side exit Top Mount Side Washer referred to as a "wrap." The wraps are 6 feet tall and 42 inches in diameter (decreasing diameter from top to bottom). The wraps weigh 300 pounds and spin at 300 rpm. The employee was cleaning the wrap as instructed (while spinning), using a pressure washer hose which became entangled in the wrap and around the employee. The employee was trapped in the spinning wrap with her wet hooded sweatshirt wrapped around her head. The employee was killed due to multiple blunt force trauma injuries and strangulation. The employee was not

Victim

#1 Fatality Age 26 F

Event type
2

Occupation code
999

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