OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #686816
CHEMOPHARM INC
SALT LAKE CITY, UT—
Event description
ARM AMPUTATED WHEN CAUGHT BY MIXER BEATER
Investigation abstract
ON JULY 13, 1985, AT APPROXIMATELY 3:15 PM, EMPLOYEE #1 RETURNED FROM AN AFTERNO ON BREAK. HE THEN PROCEEDED TO PLACE HIS ARM INTO A MIXER TO REMOVE SOME RESIDUA L DETERGENT. THE SWITCH FOR THE MIXER WAS ACTIVATED WHEN THE UNSECURED SWITCH BO X FELL, KNOCKING THE SWITCH INTO THE "ON" POSITION WHILE EMPLOYEE #1'S ARM WAS I NSIDE. HIS ARM WAS AMPUTATED AT THE ELBOW (RIGHT ARM). EMPLOYEE #1 NORMALLY USED A WOODEN BROOM TO CLEAN THE MIXER AND HE WAS NOT TO HAVE HIS ARM INSIDE THE MIX ER UNLESS LOCKOUT PROCEDURES WERE IN EFFECT (SEE ATTACHED FORM 122). THE MIXER W AS MANUFACTURED BY ROBINSON MANUFACTURING COMPANY, NEW YORK. ITS CAPACITY WAS 50 0 POUNDS.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 19 M
- Nature of injury
- 1
- Part of body
- 2
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 26
- Occupation code
- 756
- Human factor
- 13
- Environmental factor
- 3
- Task assigned
- 1
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