OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #827303
ROLSCREEN COMPANY
PELLA, IA·
Event description
Employee strangled when clothing is caught
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 reached into the rotating shaft area of a glue machine, possibly to adjust the glue flow. When the sleeve of her sweatshirt became entangled in the shaft that operated the glue wheel, pulling the sweatshirt tight around her neck , Employee #1 was strangled and died.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 29 F
- Nature of injury
- 2
- Part of body
- 20
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 26
- Occupation code
- 733
- Human factor
- 17
- Environmental factor
- 2
- Task assigned
- 1
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