Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 121452.015 - Employee fractures leg when struck by falling machine part

Accident Summary Nr: 121452.015 -- Report ID: 0454712 -- Event Date: 10/29/2019
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1443153.015	11/06/2019		331513	Magotteaux, Inc.

Abstract: At 10:00 a.m. on October 29, 2019, an employee working in maintenance for a steel foundry was attempting to line up holes to run bolts in order to install a shield on a new Blanchard machine. A coworker was utilizing a Gorbel crane to try to raise the shield. The employee and and the coworker had already installed 3 to 4 of the 13 bolts required for the shield. The coworker was raising the shield to line up the holes to install the bolts when one of the lifting eyelets that had been welded on snapped. The weight of the shield snapped the bolts that had been installed. The shield fell from approximately 4 feet landing on the employee's lower right leg before hitting the ground. The employee sustained a spiral fracture of the lower right leg and was hospitalized.

Keywords: Blunt force, Blunt force trauma, Broke, Crane, Falling Object, Foundry, Fracture, Installing, Lack of Engineering Controls, Leg, Maintenance, Material Handling, Struck By

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	1443153.015	49	M	Hospitalized injury		Machinery maintenance occupations

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