Municipal Maintenance Worker Killed When Struck With the Steel Coupling of an Out-of-Control High Pressure Water Hose

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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 27, 1996, a 62 year-old senior grounds keeper/maintenance worker was killed when a high pressure water hose went out of control. A crew of workers was using a plunger pump sewer cleaner to attempt to blast water into a hole to deepen it for installation of a new light pole. The victim died when he was struck on the head by the steel coupling of the hose. Three other workers were injured. New Jersey FACE investigators concluded that, in order to prevent similar incidents, the following safety guidelines should be followed: 1. Equipment should be used only for the purpose for which it was designed. 2. Employers should implement a comprehensive safety training program. 3. Employers should conduct a job hazard analysis to identify and correct potential hazards.
• Subjects:
  • Accident Prevention
  • Accidents
  • Accidents, Occupational
  • Occupational Health
  • Safety
  • Safety Management
  • Staff Development
  • Workplace
• Keywords:
  • Accident-analysis
  • Accident-potential
  • Accident-prevention
  • Accidents
  • Injuries
  • Injury-prevention
  • Safety-education
  • Safety-equipment
  • Safety-practices
  • Safety-measures
  More +
• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  FACE ; Machine (All) ; Machine - General ; Prevention through Design (PtD)
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  State
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHSFACE96NJ044
• 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:
  5 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20026638
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2014-103485
• 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 96NJ044, 1996 Dec ; :1-5
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1997
• Performing Organization:
  New Jersey Department of Health
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  92 - Public Administration - (NAICS)
• Start Date:
  1991/09/30
• End Date:
  2005/08/31
• Resource Number:
  FACE-96NJ044 ; FACE 96-NJ-044-01
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/170045/cdc_170045_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 64.51 KB]
• Collection(s):
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program ; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:fda734a5197e2f23ea04d170a961bbe409d91f6c895359af7ecace1ae113449ab68df067af70351bdc8a32c2c77db82ae9958bf403c26a9362896a82b055f524