Cleaning Company Laborer Crushed by Toppled Paper Bales While Working at Massachusetts Recycling Plant

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• Corporate Authors:
  Massachusetts Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Project (Massachusetts FACE) ; Massachusetts. Department of Public Health. Occupational Health Surveillance Program
• Description:
  On April 30, 1993, an 18 year old, male cleaning company laborer was killed and a co-worker was seriously injured when several 1,300 pound wire-bound paper bales fell on top of them at a Massachusetts paper recycling plant. The victim and coworker were performing routine sweeping duties in the plant when the stacked paper bales toppled down on them from an eighteen foot height. The victim was pronounced dead on the scene, and the coworker was airlifted to a regional hospital where he survived the acute trauma. To prevent similar future occurrences, the Massachusetts FACE Program concluded that employers should: 1. Ensure that forklift operators properly stack and secure materials to prevent slippage or collapse
  
  2. Consider using stanchions with chains to brace stacked materials
  
  3. Ensure that contracted cleaning company personnel are fully informed of potential jobsite safety hazards. In addition, government agencies should: 4. Clarify who is responsible for providing both general and job specific health and safety training to personnel from temporary agencies.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Health Promotion Maintenance Occupational Health Personal Protective Equipment Safety Safety Management Staff Development Workplace

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• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Accident-prevention Health-programs Injuries Injury-prevention Maintenance-workers OSHA Region 1 Protective-measures Safety-education Safety-equipment Safety-measures Safety-monitoring Safety-personnel Safety-programs Training Traumatic-injuries Work-analysis Work-areas Work-operations Work-performance Work-practices

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• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  FACE ; Temporary Worker
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  State
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHSFACE93MA004
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Massachusetts ; OSHA Region 1
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-4
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20028399
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2012-112951
• 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 93MA004, 1994 Apr ; :1-4
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1994
• Performing Organization:
  Massachusetts Department of Health
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  23 - Construction - (NAICS)
• Start Date:
  1992/09/30
• End Date:
  2006/08/31
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:4026b3977d6c12ca011ffe7a2f5e1b9fdf5f69fef51ed21f115eb9c4f4998a7171b074c47553a0a3dfdae92e8429345ceab9d7857703668de16b352541c84e83
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/166726/cdc_166726_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 17.69 KB ]