OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #709527
HEAD,MAINTENANCE,ROLLER--MACH/PART,NECK,NIP POINT,UNSTABLE POSITION
Event description
CAUGHT IN ROLLER AND BELT PINCH POINT
Investigation abstract
AN UNUSUAL NOISE HAD DEVELOPED IN AN ENCLOSED UNIT POWERING THE WHOLE BIRD CONVE YOR BELT. EMPLOYEE #1 HAD MOUNTED A METAL RACK WHILE TRYING TO LOCATE THE NOISE. THE RACK WAS RESTING PARALLEL TO THE RUN OF THE CONVEYOR AND SLIGHTLY TO ONE SI DE. ANOTHER RACK WAS RESTING SOME 18 INCHES FROM THE RACK ON WHICH HE WAS STANDI NG. IN ORDER TO CHECK FOR NOISE ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE POWER UNIT THE EMPLO YEE TRIED TO TRANSFER TO THE OTHER RACK. THE RACK SUPPORT MOVED. AS HE ATTEMPTED TO GRAB SOMETHING TO STABILIZE HIMSELF, HE WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN THE ROLLER AND BE LT, PULLING HIM FROM THE RACK. HIS HEAD & NECK WERE BEING ABRADED IN A PINCH POI NT.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 22 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 2
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 26
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 1
- Task assigned
- 1
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