OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14393193
LIBERTY RICE MILL INC
KAPLAN, LA—
Event description
CAUGHT ARM IN RICE GRADING CYLINDER ON RICE GRADING MACHINE
Investigation abstract
EMPLOYEE #1 WAS ALONE WHEN HE WAS ATTEMPING TO CLEAN THE PRECISION CYLINDERS IN A RICE GRADING MACHINE. HE DID THIS BY TAKING THE HINGED GUARD DOWN AND BRUSHING THE CYLINDER WITH A HAND-HELD WIRE BRUSH. THIS WAS DONE WITH THE MACHINE RUNNIN G. AS HE WAS BRUSHING THE CYLINDER HIS LEFT HAND GOT CAUGHT, PULLING HIS LEFT AR M INTO THE MACHINE. IN WHAT WAS DETERMINED TO BE ABOUT ONE HALF HOUR TO FORTY FI VE MINUTES LATER, ANOTHER EMPLOYEE WENT TO RELIEVE HIM AND FOUND HIM WITH HIS LE FT ARM STUCK IN THE MACHINE AND THE MACHINE RUNNING. SEVERAL EMPLOYEES DISMANTLE D THE MACHINE AND REMOVED EMPLOYEE #1, WHO HAD DIED FROM SHOCK AND MASSIVE BLOOD LOSS.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 59 M
- Nature of injury
- 1
- Part of body
- 2
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 26
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 4
- Task assigned
- 1
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