Abstract: On October 24, 2011 Employee #1, a maintenance worker of Spartan Steel Coating LLC., was performing a belt adjustment on the wrapper arm at the exit end of a coating line. Contact had been made with Employee #2, the line operator, via radio prior to entering an interlocked gate. Employee #2 was momentarily distracted and did not see Employee #1. Believing the adjustment had been completed Employee #2 lowered the belt wrapper trapping Employee #1 between it and the machine frame. The inter-locked gate did not deenergize the wrapper and no radio communication was made indicating Employee #1 had cleared the area. Employee #1 was crushed to death.