36-Year-Old Paper Factory Worker Dies From Crushing Injuries After Being Caught in a Horizontal Baler - Pennsylvania

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
• Description:
  A 36-year-old male paper factory worker (the victim) died from crushing injuries after being caught by the ram inside a 2-stage horizontal baling machine (Figure 1). The victim, working alone in the warehouse area of a paper plant, was compacting wastepaper when at some point in the compacting process he entered (either intentionally or advertently) the compression chamber and was caught by the machine's hydraulic ram. The victim was discovered by a coworker, who notified the plant manager to call police and emergency medical services (EMS). Both a fire department rescue squad and EMS arrived at the site. They extracted the victim from the baler. The victim was pronounced dead at the site by the medical examiner. Subsequent examination by investigators revealed that the baling machine was not shut off and locked out and that the safety interlock on the compression chamber door may have malfunctioned, allowing the machine to operate with the door in the open position.
• Subjects:
  Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Occupational Injuries Safety Safety Management
• Keywords:
  Factory-workers Injuries Injury-prevention Occupational-accidents Occupational-hazards Occupational-safety-programs OSHA Region 3 Safety-education Safety-measures Safety-monitoring Safety-programs Traumatic-injuries

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• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  FACE
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  NIOSH (In-House)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHFACE200108
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Pennsylvania ; OSHA Region 3
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSR - Division of Safety Research
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  8 pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20024320
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2005-100575
• Citation:
  Morgantown, : U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2002
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  31-33 - Manufacturing - (NAICS)
• Start Date:
  2001/03/07
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:efea0c2646403d264bfd72807cc968b220f12c0dbf1d09719df1edcfff0d068c1b74f8fd514e619f27c355bdcc2472cce44f3e13db28f22472f264585fee1c28
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/167338/cdc_167338_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 326.68 KB ]