18-year-old Dies After Being Entangled in a Portable Mortar Mixer - South Carolina

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
• Description:
  On May 15, 2003, an 18-year-old laborer (the victim) died after becoming entangled in a portable mortar mixer. The victim was cleaning the mixer at the end of his shift at a residential construction site to prepare it for the following day while a co-worker was brushing down the recently laid brick wall nearby. A painter working near the victim heard yells for help and saw the victim's arm stuck in the machine and his body being pulled into the rotating mixer paddles. He ran to the mixer and attempted to turn it off but could not disengage the gears, so he yelled for help. The co-worker heard the commotion, ran to the machine, and shut it off. Emergency Medical Services was called and responded within minutes. Rescue workers dismantled the drive mechanism to reverse the mixing paddles and extricated the victim. The victim was pronounced dead at the scene.
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Age Factors Construction Industry Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Safety Safety Management Staff Development
• Keywords:
  Accident-prevention Age-factors Construction-Search Injuries Injury-prevention Occupational-hazards Occupational-safety-programs OSHA Region 4 Safety-measures Safety-practices Training Traumatic-injuries

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• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  FACE ; Construction ; Machine (All) ; Machine - Manufacturing ; Machine - Construction ; Youth ; Prevention through Design (PtD)
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  NIOSH (In-House)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHFACE200313
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  South Carolina ; OSHA Region 4
• 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:
  9 pages
• Contributor:
  Casini, Virgil J. ; Koedam, Robert E. ; Struttmann, Timothy
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20024259
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2005-100566
• 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:
  2004
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  23 - Construction - (NAICS)
• Start Date:
  2002/01/29
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:1c78b1be58fe725e524ac1c07d6c6cb84ddb7cc9bf051ab4f7a7cccb52b9103eabb3092b8eeecd2e6c082975ef5ce59373532e2490a587e8756ab934c12ea514
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/167342/cdc_167342_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 699.78 KB ]