OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #692590
EMPIRE SALES INC.
HAMPTON, VA·
Event description
Employee killed between elevated skip bucket and its track
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was standing on the roller guide on the back of the skip bucket of a pipe machine, cleaning cement from a mixer. He asked the pipe machine operator to open the door on the mixer. Because this was a task that she was not familiar with, the pipe machine operator pushed the wrong control button, which caused t he skip bucket to go up. Employee #1 was crushed and killed between the top of t he skip bucket and the brace on the skip bucket track.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 38 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 1
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 24
- Occupation code
- 715
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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