OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #601518
USA WASTE OF FLORIDA, INC.
ORLANDO, FL·
Event description
Employee's arm caught in mobile refuse compaction equipment
Investigation abstract
At approximately 12:50 p.m. on June 25, 1988, Employee #1 and a coworker were on a refuse collection route using a Touxmore 20 yard side-loader collection and c ompaction unit mounted on a Ford truck. The coworker was operating the deadman p acking ram controls. While the packer ram was moving, Employee #1 threw trash in to the hopper ahead of the ram. He apparently dropped a trash can in the hopper and when he tried to retrieve it with his left hand, his arm was caught between the ram and the hopper wall. Employee #1 was hospitalized with soft tissue injur ies to his upper arm, and burns caused by a torch used by rescuers who had to cu t a hole in the side of the hopper to free him.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 30 M
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 22
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 27
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 4
- Hazardous substance
- 8880
- Task assigned
- 1
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