OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #740415
HEAD,INSTALLING,REPAIR,AGRICULTURE,WORK RULES,LOCKOUT,STRUCK BY
Event description
Employee killed when head crushed by rod on rice paddy
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was installing a guard on a paddy table in a rice processing plant. The installation required that the employee get under the table to gain access t o the attaching hardware. While he was under the table, a fellow employee accide ntally turned on the power to the table. Employee #1 was killed when his head wa s stuck by an oscillating Pitmans rod.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 37 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 26
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 13
- Environmental factor
- 4
- Task assigned
- 1
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