OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #997528
COLWELL MERCHANDISING INC
KENDALLVILLE, IN·
Event description
Employee's arm fractured in unguarded point of operation
Investigation abstract
At 8:07 p.m. on September 2, 1987, Employee #1 was attempting to retrieve a card that had been missed by the second pick-up. He turned off stationary line one u sing a STOP switch and had reached into the point of operation when the machine apparently restarted or jogged. His right arm became caught between braces and t wo pick-ups on station one, and it took five minutes to free him from the machin e. Employee #1 fractured his arm in three places and was hospitalized. The accid ent resulted from failure to guard the machine's point of operation.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 18 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 2
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 26
- Occupation code
- 753
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 4
- Task assigned
- 1
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