Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 201044435 - Trainee Is Crushed in Plastics Molding Machine

Accident Summary Nr: 201044435 -- Report ID: 0953220 -- Event Date: 07/01/2010
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
313975567	07/01/2010	3085	326160	Priority Plastics, Inc.

Abstract: Employee #1 was in training as a mechanic's helper at a plastics manufacturing facility. He was assisting a maintenance technician, or acting lead, remove plastic residue, or "purge," from a machine. The machine, an Automa "Plus" Model, type AT5D-GMC, was for blow-molding and conditioning plastic vessels. As Employee #1 was reaching inside the machine, his head was caught in a pinch point between two moving parts and crushed. The maintenance technician/acting lead had to bleed off the machine's hydraulics to release Employee #1, who was dead at the scene.

Keywords: HEAD, MOLDING MACHINE, CAUGHT BETWEEN, CRUSHED, INEXPERIENCE, NIP POINT

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	313975567			Fatality	Other	Hand packers and packagers

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