OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #691212
AMCOR INC
NORTH SALT LAKE, UT·
Event description
Employee's arm fractured when caught in conveyor belt
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was operating a bin filling system, which consists of a conveyor bel cleaning belts. t that is used to move aggregate upwards more than two floors from ground level to the bins. A shorter transfer belt at the top directs the aggregate into each of five bins that are over the block making machines. Some of the aggregate had spilled onto the transfer belt and begun building up at the tail pulley. When Em ployee #1 reached into the system with his hand to clean the aggregate from the belt, his hand and arm were pulled over the tail pulley, and his forearm was fra ctured. The power disconnect was inconveniently located on the ground level and Employee #1 ignored rules requiring lockout and/or tagging on conveyors prior to
Victim
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#1 Non-hospitalized injury Age 20 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 17
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 27
- Occupation code
- 863
- Human factor
- 13
- Environmental factor
- 1
- Task assigned
- 1
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