Recycling Plant Laborer Engulfed by a Load of Plastics on a Conveyor

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• Personal Author:
  Bost, Patrick ; Coyne, Michael A. ; O'Leary, Kathleen ; Smith, Emily O. ; Valiante, David J.
• Corporate Authors:
  New Jersey Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Project (NJ FACE) ; New Jersey. Department of Health and Senior Services. Occupational Health Service
• Description:
  On March 10, 1999, a 63-year-old recycling plant worker stood near the edge of a steel belt conveyor that was being loaded with loose bales of plastic materials being sent to a baling machine. He may have been cutting the strips holding the bales together when he slipped and fell onto the moving conveyor belt. He was swept along on the conveyor belt and buried under the piles of plastic bags. The emergency shut off switch for the conveyor was not functioning. The worker was asphyxiated under the large piles of materials. FACE investigators concluded that in order to prevent similar incidents, the following safety guidelines should be followed: 1. Emergency shut off devices should be functioning and easily accessible to workers on the conveyor belt and to bystanders. 2. The production process should be modified to decrease the amount of loose material on and around the conveyors. 3. A job hazard analysis should be conducted
  
  a health and safety plan should be designed and implemented based on the findings of the hazard analysis.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Emergencies Hazardous Substances Health Promotion Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Occupational Injuries Safety Safety Management Staff Development Workplace

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• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Accident-potential Accident-prevention Emergency-equipment Health-hazards Health-programs Injuries Injury-prevention Machine-guarding Machine-shop-workers Occupational-accidents Occupational-hazards Occupational-health-programs Occupational-safety-programs OSHA Region 2 Safety-education Safety-equipment Safety-measures Safety-practices Safety-programs Traumatic-injuries Work-analysis Work-environment Work-operations Work-practices

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• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  FACE ; Hispanic ; Machine (All) ; Machine - Manufacturing ; Foreign Born Workers ; Energy Production ; Prevention through Design (PtD) ; Waste Management and Remediation Services
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  State
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHSFACE99NJ024
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  New Jersey ; OSHA Region 2
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  7 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20026691
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2013-100203
• 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 99NJ024, 2000 Feb ; :1-7
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2000
• Performing Organization:
  New Jersey Department of Health
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  56 - Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services - (NAICS)
• Start Date:
  1991/09/30
• End Date:
  2005/08/31
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:cf2d92e5bb23a5dedcdeb84d9eff4c9f2684957e82406b14ae9c056d7fece09045828a1aa1b40c6c4d50d16798ee0cb440e5deea30aea300d8b24258818cdd2e
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/169242/cdc_169242_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 369.96 KB ]