Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 202078887 - Employee Is Crushed and Killed While Cleaning

Accident Summary Nr: 202078887 -- Report ID: 0453730 -- Event Date: 08/09/2007
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
311353189	08/09/2007	3444	332322	Porter'S Group Llc Dba Porter'S Fabrication

Abstract: On August 9, 2007, Employee #1 was cleaning up at the end of his shift around a steel sheet change stocker tower. The tower was used for storage and retrieval of pallets of sheet steel for automatic feed into a laser cutting machine. He was last seen with a broom at the elevator system used to raise and lower pallets from the floor into the tower. He was found crushed under the elevator frame with his body parallel to the front of the tower, between the metal support table used for loading the tower. Employee #1 was killed.

Keywords: CLEANING, CAUGHT BETWEEN, CRUSHED, PALLET, ELEVATOR

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	311353189			Fatality	Fracture	Production helpers

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