Machine Operator Fatally Injured When Struck by the Elevator of a Concrete Block Cuber Machine–Tennessee

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
• Description:
  A 22-year-old male machine operator who worked at a concrete block manufacturing facility died after being struck by the elevator of a concrete block cuber machine. The facility had nine workers on one shift
  
  there was no safety manager, safety policy or written safety procedures. The victim was operating the metal stripping machine which placed metal bands around cubes of blocks, 90 blocks to a cube. The accident was not observed, but the victim apparently noted that a cube of blocks was lodged on the conveyor belt near the cuber machine. Although procedure required that the cuber machine be shut down and locked out before accessing the working area of the machine, the victim apparently opened a manually operated steel access gate into the machine's operating area while the machine was operating, entered the area and attempted to correct the positioning of the cube of blocks. The cuber machine cycled and the elevator dropped, striking the victim on the lower spine, and trapping him. He was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital due to crushing lower trunk injuries. Recommendations include the development, implementation, and enforcement of a written safety procedure including task specific training and lockout procedures, that consideration be given to the development and installation of interlocking gates which protect workers, and that a safety hazard analysis be conducted of all work areas.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis FACE-95-14 Industrial-factory-workers Machine-operators OSHA Region 4 Safety-research Traumatic-injuries
• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  FACE ; 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/NIOSHFACE9514
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Tennessee ; 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:
  4 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00230280
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB96-194238
• 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:
  1996
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  31-33 - Manufacturing - (NAICS)
• Start Date:
  1995/08/29
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:793648a2cfc9f756ab494455c3eff1f10b3065cff4760e94350602e69cbb4732884ba6c0965485e751685f4d09e139f1d67454d74b56174874a63afdc903a45c
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/167443/cdc_167443_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 374.49 KB ]