OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #605741
MAINTENANCE,WORK RULES,CLEANING,CAUGHT BY,FALL,UNSTABLE POSITION
Event description
Employee killed in fall into cyclone
Investigation abstract
Employee #1, while doing routine maintenance, was using a high pressure water sp ray to knock off waste material that had built up on the inside wall of a cyclon e on a metal shredding machine. The cyclone fan was locked out but the rotary ai r lock at the bottom of the cyclone was turned on so that the waste material cou ld exit the cyclone. Employee #1 fell about 18 ft into the cyclone through a 18 in. by 40 in. opening on top of it. About an hour later a coworker found him lod ged in the rotary air lock. He was killed.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 24 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 889
- Human factor
- 10
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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