OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #732933
WORK RULES,RIB,CHEST,FRACTURE,ROTATING PARTS,PINNED,CAUGHT BY,CRUSHED,NECK,UNGUARDED
Event description
Employee killed when caught in rotating condenser
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was checking a filter drum in an air wash room. He turned off the va ned between the moving crossbraces and the T-shaped support. He died from a crus hed neck, chest, abdomen and colon, fractured ribs, and internal bleeding. There was no guard on the rotating end of the condenser. cuum arms of the drum filter before entering the filter housing/plenum, which me asured about 18 ft long by 12 ft wide by 8 ft tall. The rotating condenser, an o pen-ended filter facing the open end of the filter drum and rotating about one r evolution in 8 minutes, is not shut down during the normal cleaning of the drum filter. The condenser is about 4 ft in diameter with two crossbraces that form s pokes like those on a wheel, and is supported by a T-shaped support brace. The a ccess passageway is 3 ft wide with a 10 in. vacuum line in the center of the pas sageway. Employee #1 reached into the condenser while it was turning and was pin
Victims (2)
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#1 Fatality Age 64 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 26
- Occupation code
- 453
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 4
- Task assigned
- 1
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#981 Degree 0 Age 0
- Nature of injury
- 0
- Part of body
- 0
- Event type
- 0
- Source
- 0
- Occupation code
- 0
- Human factor
- 0
- Environmental factor
- 0
- Task assigned
- 0
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