Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 200551034 - Employee killed when crushed in spinning mixer

Accident Summary Nr: 200551034 -- Report ID: 0625700 -- Event Date: 09/30/1999
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
303076608	10/01/1999	2992	0	Oil Center Research, Inc.

Abstract: Employee #1 was on a second-floor platform moving 55-gallon drums from in front of a mixer. A foreman driving a forklift approached the second-floor mixer loading gate carrying a pump in a 55-gallon drum. The load pushed Employee #1 and he slipped and fell onto some loose cardboard covering the opening to the mixer. He became caught by the mixer's rapidly spinning parts and was drawn into the mixing tank, where he became wound around the drive shaft for the mixer's paddles. Employee #1 was killed. Earlier in the day, a coworker had placed cardboard over the floor opening leading to the mixer, concealing the fact that the mixer's cover and grate had not been installed.

Keywords: ROTATING PARTS, COVER, UNSECURED, UNSECURED PANEL, WORK RULES, MIXER, CAUGHT BY, CRUSHED, FALL, FLOOR OPENING

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	303076608			Fatality	Bruise/Contus/Abras	Production helpers

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