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Accident: 113086.015 - Employee Is Caught In A Conveyor And Is Killed

Accident: 113086.015 -- Report ID: 0521100 -- Event Date: 01/29/2019
InspectionOpen DateSICEstablishment Name
1374648.01501/29/2019Pukall Lumber Company, Inc.

At 7:18 a.m. on January 29, 2019, Employee #1 was shoveling bark out from under a bark belt conveyor in the boiler area to clean up. A jam occurred on the smal l bark belt leading to bark piling up and spilling over the conveyor and under t he stairway. Employee #1 raised the stairway and prepared to clean the spilled bark. Employee #1 knelt down next to an unguarded tail pulley for the outdoor s mall bark belt to shovel out bark that had spilled onto the ground underneath a staircase. Employee #1 was pulled into the unguarded conveyor when his clothing became entangled in the self cleaning pulley. Employee #1 was asphyxiated due t o strangulation from their clothing becoming entangled in the self cleaning pull ey.

Keywords: asphyxiated, caught in, conveyor belt

Employee Details
Employee # Inspection Age Sex Degree Nature Occupation
1 1374648.015 30 M Fatality Sawing machine operators

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