OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #777714
STRUCK AGAINST,INFLATING,MULTIPIECE RIM WHEEL
Event description
Employee injured in escape from exploding tire rim
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 had started to inflate a split-rim tire. A tire cage had been provid ed. The supervisor told Employee #1 to move away because the tire could blow up and separate. As Employee #1 turned, the rim detached. Employee #1 panicked and ran into a mounted tire vise, knocking himself backward to the floor. No pieces of tire struck him.
Victim
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#1 Non-hospitalized injury Age 23 M
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 5
- Event type
- 6
- Source
- 43
- Occupation code
- 864
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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