OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #731851
PLATFORM,HEAD,WORK RULES,LOCKOUT,CAUGHT BETWEEN,LACERATION,CONCRETE BLOCK
Event description
Employee injured when caught in concrete machine
Investigation abstract
At approximately 5:30 p.m. on March 18, 1985, Employee #1 was working at a Paco on extending from the front of his left ear around to the back of his head. concrete block cuber machine. (The machine removed concrete blocks from a convey or line and arranged them on an elevated loading platform that lowered, pushed, and separated the blocks, and deposited them on a railroad car.) At the time of the accident, two blocks in the rear had turned on their sides and were in the w rong position for the next layer. Employee #1 entered the machine through an ope ning under the loading platform and was turning over the two blocks when the pla tform came down. He started out of the machine but his head became caught betwee n the platform and a row of concrete blocks. He was hospitalized with a lacerati
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 19 M
- Nature of injury
- 7
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 27
- Occupation code
- 863
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 4
- Task assigned
- 1
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