OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #762740
FOREMAN'S PLANT MAINTENANCE INC
MEMPHIS, TN·
Event description
EMPLOYEE KILLED IN SANDBLASTING OPERATION
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was struck in the chest, apparently by his sandblaster discharge and killed. Moreover, during sandblasting overheated compressor caused an overexpos ure to carbon monoxide.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 48 Male
- Nature of injury
- Bruise/Contus/Abras (3)
- Part of body
- CHEST (5)
- Accident type
- STRUCK BY (1)
- Source of injury
- DUST/PARTICLES/CHIPS (14)
- Occupation
- Grinding, abrading, buffing & polishing mach. op's (709)
- Human factor
- DEFECTIVE EQUIPMENT IN USE (12)
- Environmental factor
- FLYING OBJECT ACTION (5)
- 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.