OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #767152

ROTATING KNIFE,WORK RULES,CLEANING,SLIP,CONSTRUCTION,FALL,SLIPPERY SURFACE,HOPPER

1990-01-26T00:00:00

Event: ROTATING KNIFE,WORK RULES,CLEANING,SLIP,CONSTRUCTION,FALL,SLIPPERY SURFACE,HOPPER
Linked inspection: No inspection record linked to this accident's victims.
Summary number: 767152
Report ID: 626300

Event description

Employee killed in fall into rotating blades of hopper

Investigation abstract

Employee #1 was washing down his concrete truck hopper when he slipped on the we t platform. He fell into the hopper's rotating blades and was killed.

Victim

#1 Fatality Age 33 M

Nature of injury
7

Part of body
19

Event type
2

Source
30

Occupation code
999

Human factor
1

Environmental factor
3

Task assigned
1

Codes shown verbatim from OSHA's accident-investigation database. A human-readable decoder is coming in a future release once the accident_lookup2 dictionary is loaded.