Refuse Collector Crushed by Refuse Truck Compactor

Details

• Personal Author:
  Ray, Thomas D. ; Roberts, Daryl W.
• Corporate Authors:
  Missouri Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Program (MO FACE) ; Missouri. Department of Health
• Description:
  A 24-year-old refuse collector died as a result of being crushed by the compactor blade of a refuse truck. The victim had reached into the truck compactor compartment to salvage a piece of brass from a discarded lavatory. The compactor blade inadvertently activated and the victim could not escape. The MO FACE investigator concluded that to prevent future similar occurrences employers should: 1. develop, implement and enforce a comprehensive safety program that includes, but not limited to, training in hazard recognition and avoidance. 2. install warning lights and warning sound indicators when compactor mechanism is engaged.
• Content Notes:
  Publication Date provided by FACE program
  
  not printed on the report
  
  
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Accident-potential Accident-prevention Equipment-design Equipment-operators Injuries Injury-prevention Machine-operation Machine-operators OSHA Region 7 Safety-education Safety-practices Sanitation Sanitation-engineering Traumatic-injuries Trucking

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• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  FACE ; Motor Vehicles - Refuse Truck
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  State
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHSFACE92MO048
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Missouri ; OSHA Region 7
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  6 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20026236
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2007-109895
• 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 92MO048, 1993 Jun ; :1-6
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1993
• Performing Organization:
  Missouri Department of Health
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  11 - Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting - (NAICS)
• Start Date:
  1991/09/30
• End Date:
  2002/03/31
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:012b09a247da3527b2d3f9e62bd32646c3a416128deb81944d8cccd37619f89c8077a79155b5aee82b7cfe95ff4b40988136ec5eb1f860b19ecf5f9e68146068
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/170291/cdc_170291_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 14.20 KB ]