OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #691188
USS GENEVA WORKS
OREM, UT·
Event description
Employee's leg fractured when caught by conveyor structure
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 and a coworker were at the third floor screening station of a coke p rol room and turned on the belt that the employees were standing on. The belt, w hich moves fast, pulled the employees under a crossover walkway that caught Empl oyee #1 and fractured his leg. lant, changing the wear plates near the screens. The only way to reach the plate s is to stand on a conveyor belt that moves the coke after it has been screened, taking it either to the blast furnaces or to a hopper for truck loading. Employ ee #1 and the coworker went to the control room, which is on the second floor, t o turn off and lock out the belt on which they would be standing. They locked ou t what they thought was the right belt, went back upstairs, stepped onto the bel t, and proceeded to work on the wear plates. However, they had locked out the wr ong belt and when a driver came to load his truck with coke, he went to the cont
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 31 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 16
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 27
- Occupation code
- 633
- Human factor
- 13
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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