Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 163898.015 - Employee is killed when crushed by palletizer machine

Accident Summary Nr: 163898.015 -- Report ID: 0728500 -- Event Date: 02/06/2024
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1726593.015	02/07/2024		311513	Schreiber Foods

Abstract: At 3:50 a.m. on February 6, 2024, an employee working as a machine operator for a cheese manufacturer was operating a palletizer machine. The employer reported that the employee may have entered the palletizer machine to adjust a crooked box. The employee was caught by a sweeper arm and pinned between the arm and a column. The employee died from crushing injuries to his chest which included asphyxia.

Keywords: Adjust, Asphyxiated, Boxes, Caught By, Chest, Contusion, Crushed, Food processing, Fracture, Insufficient Supervision, Lack of Engineering Controls, Lockout, Lockout/Tagout, Machine Guarding, Machine operator, Material Handling, Misjudgment, Misjudgment of Hazardous Situation, Pallet Wrapping Machine, Pinch Point, Pinched, Pinned, Sweeper, Sweeper Arm

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	1726593.015	48	M	Fatality		Packaging and filling machine operators

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