Laborer caught in chipper/shredder machine--Maryland

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• Corporate Authors:
  Maryland Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Program (Maryland FACE) ; Maryland. Division of Labor and Industry
• Description:
  A 24-year-old male groundsman (the victim) died from injuries sustained when he was caught in a brush chipper. The victim was responsible for loading limbs into the chipper while a co-worker, the foreman, was removing branches from a tree. During the process of loading the machine the victim must have placed his hand(s) into the chute and his left arm was drawn into the feeder wheels and traumatically amputated. The victim also suffered head injuries as he was pulled into the machine. He died at the scene. Recommendations: 1. Employers should ensure that employees are provided with appropriate personal protective equipment and training specific to the correct use of all required personal protective equipment. 2. Employers should develop, implement, and enforce a safety and health program to instruct employees in hazard recognition and to provide clear guidance on safe work procedures and safe work practices. 3. Manufacturers should consider design alterations to the in-feed chute so that gravity can be used to feed small limbs and compact brush.
• Content Notes:
  Publication Date provided by FACE program
  
  not printed on the report
  
  
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Engineering Forestry Occupational Health Personal Protective Equipment Safety
• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Accident-prevention Control-technology Engineering-controls Forestry-workers Injuries Injury-prevention Machine-guarding OSHA Region 3 Personal-protective-equipment Protective-equipment Traumatic-injuries Work-analysis

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• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  FACE ; Machine (All) ; Machine - Manufacturing ; Landscaping Services
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  State
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHSFACE94MD058
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Maryland ; OSHA Region 3
• 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:20026156
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2007-107279
• 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 94MD058, 1995 May ; :1-5
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1995
• Performing Organization:
  Maryland Division of Labor and Industry
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  56 - Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services - (NAICS)
• Start Date:
  1993/09/30
• End Date:
  1998/09/29
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:31cb2bdc27812a1bb28e60f8fae84ca24b67afeff1c01bfd7fd6f48dc8cb827e0e45ec9720663153104c2b50ab6903802410efce77530e2a467c18d5ec53d334
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/170315/cdc_170315_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 47.71 KB ]