OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #740415
COLUSA MULTI MILLING
COLUSA, CA·
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 Male
- Nature of injury
- Other (21)
- Part of body
- HEAD (13)
- Accident type
- CAUGHT IN OR BETWEEN (2)
- Source of injury
- MACHINE (26)
- Occupation
- Occupation not reported (999)
- Human factor
- LOCKOUT/TAGOUT PROCED MALFUNC (13)
- Environmental factor
- SQUEEZE POINT ACTION (4)
- Task assigned
- Task regularly assigned (1)
Labels are OSHA's own, from the code dictionary published with the accident-investigation file. The raw code is shown beside each one so this page can be reconciled against OSHA's bulk data. OSHA notes that nature of injury, part of body, source of injury and accident type in this file are not coded to the Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System, and that the occupation titles are not standardised — so these values are not directly comparable with the OIICS-coded severe injury reports.