OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #734459
GEORGETOWN STEEL CORPORATION
GEORGETOWN, SC·
Event description
Employee killed when caught between launders
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was cleaning slag from the #1 launder on the casting floor. He was s tanding between the #1 and #2 launders when a coworker started moving the ladle car out. The west end of the moving ladle car hit the #2 launder, and Employee # 1 was caught between the #1 and #2 launders. He sustained crushing injuries to h is chest and was killed. The ladle car travels 7 ft 6 in. per minute.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 40 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 27
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 43
- Occupation code
- 719
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 4
- Task assigned
- 1
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