OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #980888
AMPUTATED,LADLE,STEEL,RAIL,BLAST FURNACE,MILL--PLANT
Event description
Employee's leg crushed by ladle car
Investigation abstract
At approximately 8:30a.m., on December 8, 1989, Employee #1 and Employee #2 oper e his left leg was amputated below the knee and fracturing his right leg. ating engineers employed by Furnace Services, were in the process of cleaning la dle car number 138 at a the ladle repair shop. Employee #1 noticed the ladle car , a rail car used to move molten steel from the blast furnace to various areas o f the mill started to roll on the track while 2 co workers was cleaning the entr y hole. Employee #1 began placing blocks of wood under the car wheels to prevent it from moving. When Employee #1 got to the backside of the car, the body of th e car rolled off the car frame and fell on his left leg pinning him to the groun d and fracturing his right leg. Employee #1 was transported to the hospital wher
Victims (2)
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#1 Hospitalized Age 57 M
- Nature of injury
- 1
- Part of body
- 16
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 27
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Hazardous substance
- 8880
- Task assigned
- 1
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#981 Degree 0 Age 0
- Nature of injury
- 0
- Part of body
- 0
- Event type
- 0
- Source
- 0
- Occupation code
- 0
- Human factor
- 0
- Environmental factor
- 0
- Task assigned
- 0
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