OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #851220
OMEGA METAL TREATING INC
GREEN BAY, WI·
Event description
Employee killed when struck by hot castings
Investigation abstract
At approximately 4:45 p.m. on June 11, 1988, Employee #1 and a coworker were mov ing a cart of hot castings to a cool area. They had just taken the castings out of the heat treating furnace and transferred them onto a cart with rollers and c asters. At one end of the cart, the stop device, a piece of angle iron with one end bolted to the frame, somehow moved down or opened and the castings rolled of f onto Employee #1, killing him.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 19 M
- Nature of injury
- 6
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 27
- Occupation code
- 715
- Human factor
- 11
- Environmental factor
- 5
- Task assigned
- 1
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