OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #902338
LUMBER,SAWMILL,STRUCK BY,FLYING OBJECT
Event description
EMPLOYEE STRUCK AND KILLED BY FLYING WOOD PROJECTILE
Investigation abstract
At 10:20 a.m., Employee #1 was off-bearing cut lumber from the head saw conveyor such kickbacks. The flying projectile traveled 86 in. through the air, struck Em ployee #1 and fractured his clavicle bone, the first rib on his left side, and s evering his aorta; killing him instantly. and feeding lumber measuring 14 in. wide by 9 ft long, through the Corley edger machine, which had six 18 in. carbide saw blades spaced at variant widths. Empl oyee #1 was cutting lumber into pieces that were 3.75 in. wide by 9 ft long by . 75 in. thick. After completing two such large pieces, and while feeding a third large piece through the machine, one of the already cut pieces rode up between t wo blades, was caught by the upper thrust of the blade rotation, and was thrown at high speed through a 1.25 in. space between the top of the machine head and t he top of the anti-kickback device guarding the point of operation against just
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 39 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 5
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 26
- Occupation code
- 727
- Human factor
- 8
- Environmental factor
- 5
- Task assigned
- 1
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