OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #971499
FRACTURE,PAPER ROLL,CAUGHT BETWEEN,MANUAL MAT HANDLING,BRACE,LEG
Event description
Employee's leg broken by runaway paper roll
Investigation abstract
At approximately 8:30 a.m. on November 4, 1989, Employee #1 was helping a cowork er roll a paper roll weighing 1,800 lb onto a trolley cart from a platform. The paper roll was flattened on the bottom. When it was rolled over onto the cart, t he momentum was too much for Employee #1 to hold and he was pinned between the r oll of paper and a stairway support brace. He was hospitalized with a broken leg .
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 22 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 16
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 7
- Occupation code
- 883
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 1
- Task assigned
- 1
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