Rewinder Operator's Assistant Crushed in Paper Rewinder Machine--Maryland

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• Corporate Authors:
  Maryland Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Program (Maryland FACE) ; Maryland. Division of Labor and Industry
• Description:
  A 19-year-old rewinder operator's assistant (the victim) died from multiple injuries when he was crushed in a paper rewinder machine. The victim and a co-worker (the rewinder operator) were standing on the eject table of the machine taping rolls of paper while the machine was operating. The victim lost his footing and was pulled into the machinery feet first. As his body passed between two steel drive rollers and the paper rolls he was crushed by the paper product and machinery components weighing in excess of 7000 pounds. His body was discharged into the interior of the machine. The victim was pronounced dead at the scene. The Maryland FACE investigator suggests that to prevent similar occurrences: 1. Employers should install guarding on all machinery to prevent employees from coming in contact with rotating parts. 2. Employers should develop, implement, and enforce written safe work procedures that separate the employee from exposure to hazards that could result in injury or death. 3. Operations that must be performed near moving machinery should be automated or designed to eliminate the risk of employee injury.
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Engineering Occupational Health Printing Safety
• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Accident-potential Accident-prevention Control-technology Engineering-controls Injuries Injury-prevention Machine-guarding OSHA Region 3 Printers Printing-industry Traumatic-injuries

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• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  FACE ; Machine (All) ; Machine - Manufacturing
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  State
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHSFACE94MD057
• 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:20026155
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2007-107278
• 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 94MD057, 2005 Sep ; :1-5
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2005
• Performing Organization:
  Maryland Division of Labor and Industry
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  31-33 - Manufacturing - (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-512:2020b159fd102aff4256706536b678097c46ce8e33a9411cd1e55855b251ccc651cd26c1cf499f354006ab09f718f3a310c7932292378de3ec15b382534b58e2
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/170316/cdc_170316_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 17.03 KB ]