Snow Plow Driver Dies When Caught in Auger of Salt Spreader

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• Personal Author:
  Anderson, Henry A. ; Islam, KM Monirul ; Sieger, Thomas ; Van Kuiken, Phillip
• Corporate Authors:
  Wisconsin Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (Wisconsin FACE) ; Wisconsin. Division of Public Health. Bureau of Occupational Health
• Description:
  On December 20, 2004, a 55-year-old truck driver (the victim) died after his clothing became entwined around a rotary auger that was used to move salt in the back of a dump truck to a spreader. He was alone, operating a snowplow Ford F550 dump truck with a hydraulically operated Swenson salt spreading attachment, at the time of the incident. He was found by a co-worker who was returning with his truck to the dispatch yard. The co-worker found the victim inside the box of the truck with the victim's arm caught up in the auger. The co-worker called 911 at 3:46 p.m. The paramedics responded and listed the time of death at 3:55 p.m. The medical examiner declared the victim dead at 5:15 p.m. The victim was removed from the auger by Emergency Medical Services (EMS) personnel and it was observed that the victim's right sleeve had been caught on one of the auger's teeth. The victim was transported to the medical examiners morgue. The FACE investigator concluded that to help prevent similar occurrences, employers should: 1. implement an effective Lockout Tagout program that identifies and addresses the hazards associated with rotary machine parts and includes all the manufacturer's recommendations for safe machine handling
  
  2. contact the manufacturer to determine whether rotating machine components can be completely shielded to prevent worker contact with moving machine parts
  
  and, 3. ensure that workers are trained to recognize the hazards associated with working near or around exposed rotating machine parts.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Automobiles Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Occupational Health Personal Protective Equipment Safety Safety Management Staff Development Workplace

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• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Accident-prevention Equipment-operators Injuries Injury-prevention Machine-guarding Machine-operation Machine-operators Motor-vehicles OSHA Region 5 Protective-measures Safety-education Safety-equipment Safety-measures Safety-monitoring Safety-programs Training Traumatic-injuries Truck-drivers Work-analysis Work-areas Work-operations Work-performance Work-practices

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• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  FACE ; Machine (All) ; Machine - General
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  State
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHSFACE04WI093
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Wisconsin ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-7
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20030820
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2006-114592
• Citation:
  Morgantown, WV: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, FACE 04WI093, 2006 Aug ; :1-7
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2006
• Performing Organization:
  Wisconsin Department of Health & Family Services
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  48-49 - Transportation and Warehousing - (NAICS)
• Start Date:
  1991/09/30
• End Date:
  2006/08/31
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:6d6ca9b83e132d628ac466b5b0e80109a30177ade78bd8375de7256ff50c45da48e88a05b190f402505169fed28b16f2e6d655c9b637e54a99d3b036fc4ee8ba
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/166311/cdc_166311_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 145.82 KB ]