OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #690883
PIONEER FABRICATING
CLEARFIELD, UT·
Event description
ARM AMPUTATED IN RECOIL MACHINE
Investigation abstract
EMPLOYEE #1 WAS SLITTING SOME 14 GAUGE STEEL PLATE AND THEN COILING IT ON A RECO IL MACHINE. THE STEEL STRIPS WERE 10 INCHES WIDE AFTER SLITTING. THE RECOIL MACH INE WAS SET UP TO COIL FOUR STRIPS AT A TIME. HOWEVER, THE FOUR STRIPS SOMETIMES DO NOT COIL AT THE SAME RATE. IN ORDER TO GET THE STRIPS TO COIL AT THE SAME RA TE THE OPERATOR (EMPLOYEE #1) WAS TO PUT MATERIAL INTO THE COIL THAT WAS LOOSE. EMPLOYEE #1 THREW SOME STEEL CHIPS INTO THE NORTH END COIL. AT THAT TIME THE COI L PULLED HIS HAND AND ARM UNDER THE STEEL STRIP THAT WAS BEING COILED. WHEN THIS HAPPENED THE MACHINE PULLED THE EMPLOYEE INTO IT. EMPLOYEE #1'S RIGHT ARM WAS T ORN OFF AT THE SHOULDER.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 18 M
- Nature of injury
- 1
- Part of body
- 2
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 26
- Occupation code
- 725
- Human factor
- 4
- Environmental factor
- 3
- Task assigned
- 1
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