Cranberry Farm Worker Dies of Injuries Sustained From A Fall Through a Sluice Gate Cover

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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 23, 1992, a 60-year-old male water foreman was critically injured after falling approximately three feet through a sluice gate cover. The incident occurred at a cranberry farm while the worker was standing on top of a sluice gate that controls the flow of water into the cranberry bogs. As the worker was using a gate hook to open the gate, the wooden cover he was standing on broke, causing him to fall into the gate and break his leg. The victim was hospitalized but died of complications related to his injury on August 27, 1992, two months after the incident. NJDOH FACE investigators concluded that, in order to prevent similar incidents in the future, employers should follow these safety guidelines: 1. Employers should conduct a job hazard analysis of all work activities with the participation of the workers. 2. Employers should study methods for improving safety while opening sluice gates. 3. Employers should develop, implement, and enforce a comprehensive employee safety program.
• Content Notes:
  Formerly 93NJ034
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Agriculture Occupational Health Safety Safety Management Workplace
• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Accident-potential Accident-prevention Agricultural-industry Agricultural-workers Injuries Injury-prevention OSHA Region 2 Safety-education Safety-equipment Safety-measures Safety-practices Traumatic-injuries Work-environment Work-operations Work-practices

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• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  FACE ; Agriculture ; Falls
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  State
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHSFACE92NJ084
• 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:
  3 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20026549
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2013-104917
• 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 92NJ084, 1993 May ; :1-3
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1993
• Performing Organization:
  New Jersey Department of Health
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  11 - Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting - (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-512:9f8a0ccc5ee9c09a10b97448080a813b76109e8ddf9ebb35fddb4eb6f5e4f942eab71f9411b9a03bf61738fd7d46e1cd16f2c14f34467305da64ba0064b0e09e
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/170100/cdc_170100_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 72.73 KB ]