105,313Records 71,083Employers 85,290Hospitalizations 27,770Amputations 2015-01-01 2025-10-31
Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #851394

MAINTENANCE,INSTALLING,WORK RULES,LOCKOUT,CAUGHT BETWEEN,CRUSHED

Event
MAINTENANCE,INSTALLING,WORK RULES,LOCKOUT,CAUGHT BETWEEN,CRUSHED
Linked inspection
No inspection record linked to this accident's victims.
Summary number
851394
Report ID
521100

Event description

Employee killed when crushed by core machine

Investigation abstract

Employee #1 was installing a manifold on the tilt mechanism of a model CB-26-SA auto core machine, serial #114-CB26SA-AC. The power source was on and the machin e inadvertently activated, crushing Employee #1's chest between the tilt mechani sm and the frame of the machine. Employee #1 was killed.

Victim

  1. #1 Fatality Age 23 M

    Nature of injury
    12
    Part of body
    4
    Event type
    2
    Source
    26
    Occupation code
    999
    Human factor
    1
    Environmental factor
    4
    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.