Worker Suffocated When Engulfed in a Sand Hopper

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• Corporate Authors:
  New Jersey Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Project (NJ FACE) ; New Jersey. Department of Health and Senior Services. Occupational Health Service
• Description:
  On June 6, 1998, a 56-year-old worker died when he was engulfed by sand in a hopper at a concrete pipe manufacturing company. His job as a "material man" was to direct the flow of sand and gravel from storage bins to hoppers housed in a shed on top of the plant. Since there was only one conveyor that moved sand and gravel from storage bins to the shed, the material man had to enter the shed and manually operate a lever that controlled the flow of sand or gravel into the correct hopper. He entered the 17-foot-deep hopper filled with sand, perhaps by falling, was engulfed, and suffocated. FACE investigators concluded that in order to prevent similar incidents, the following safety guidelines should be followed: 1. The employer should develop, implement, and enforce a permit-required confined space entry program. 2. The employer should conduct a job hazard analysis
  
  policies and training should be implemented based upon the findings of the evaluation. 3. The employer should consider establishing a joint labor/management safety and health committee.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Confined Spaces Construction Industry Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Occupational Injuries Safety Safety Management Staff Development Workplace

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• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Accident-potential Accident-prevention Cement-industry Confined-spaces Injuries Injury-prevention Occupational-accidents Occupational-hazards Occupational-health-programs Occupational-safety-programs OSHA Region 2 Safety-education Safety-equipment Safety-measures Safety-practices Training Traumatic-injuries Work-analysis Work-environment Work-operations Work-practices

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• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  FACE ; Confined Space ; Falls ; Machine (All) ; Machine - Manufacturing ; Prevention through Design (PtD)
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  State
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHSFACE98NJ047
• 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:
  9 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20026675
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2010-110596
• 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 98NJ047, 1999 Feb ; :1-9
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1999
• Performing Organization:
  New Jersey Department of Health
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  31-33 - Manufacturing - (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-512:5b7a7f219be95ba84b74ee9b24124b9bac4d8308ca1043f95332a513fb885dff11f101dd06b254ba52cc6b53d91077f77b58b4354ddf76989105b8f6b124b0bf
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/169249/cdc_169249_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 254.21 KB ]