Laundry Worker Killed When Struck by Ejected Ring of a Commercial Laundry Extractor

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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 December 13, 1994, a 40-year-old male laborer died when he was struck by the ejected ring of a commercial laundry centrifugal extractor as he waited for the machine to finish spinning. NJDOH FACE investigators concluded that, in order to prevent similar incidents in the future, the following safety guidelines should be followed: 1. Institute a regularly scheduled machine maintenance program
  
  2. Replace machines when essential parts are no longer available.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Occupational Health Safety Safety Management
• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Accident-potential Accident-prevention Equipment-operators Equipment-reliability Injuries Injury-prevention Machine-operation Machine-operators OSHA Region 2 Safety-measures Safety-practices Traumatic-injuries Work-practices

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• 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/NIOSHSFACE94NJ150
• 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:
  4 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20026600
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2014-105968
• 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 94NJ150, 1995 Jul ; :1-4
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1995
• Performing Organization:
  New Jersey Department of Health
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  81 - Other Services (except Public Administration) - (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-512:426fd07fd13d07f1b1d3d74c3e31a232911c97709e246f3659233f4e693a7e8b48bd3fa27f10a9031a4737568cb6c8facd66268762e1a1003873e737146a71d3
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/170068/cdc_170068_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 18.54 KB ]