Laborer Dies After Falling into Baler at Paper Products Plant - 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 9, 1997, a 34-year-old laborer (the victim) died after falling in an operating paper baler at a paper products plant. The victim and a co -worker were loading scrap paper into an automatically operated paper baler via a belt conveyor. The victim ascended to a platform located between the conveyor discharge and the feed chute of the paper baler to clear jammed material. Then the victim fell into the baling chamber and the baler ram automatically activated. NIOSH investigators concluded that to prevent similar incidents, employers should: ensure that procedures for adequate control of hazardous energy(lockout/tagout) are implemented by workers when it is necessary to perform maintenance, including clearing jammed material from process machinery ; ensure that process machines such as paper balers which are prone to jamming are configured to include means of access to protect workers from injury while clearing material jams.
• Subjects:
  • Accidents, Occupational
  • Accidental Falls
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Occupational Health
  • Safety
  • Safety Management
• Keywords:
  • Traumatic-injuries
  • Machine-operation
  • Accident-prevention
  • Safety-measures
  • Safety-programs
  • OSHA Region 4
• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  All ; Machine (All) ; Machine - Manufacturing ; Prevention through Design (PtD)
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  NIOSH (In-House)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHFACE9715
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Report
• 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:
  5 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Casini, Virgil J. ; Moore, Paul H. ; Pettit, Theodore A. ; Sniezek, Joe
• Volume:
  1997
• Issue:
  15
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20000459
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB99-157083
• 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:
  1997
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  31-33 - Manufacturing - (NAICS 2022)
• Start Date:
  1997/05/09
• Resource Number:
  FACE 97-15
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/167392/cdc_167392_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 182.23 KB]
• Collection(s):
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program ; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:9041f0084c7ba133d981e3b322edb972169d3cfebb1d433a28f3000fc9bb2d655920e1a024a78cc8289d57b30ed47d8b663856a008e75236075a24baf36cb041