Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Report: Machine Operator Dies211 After Being Crushed by 9,700-Pound Coil Cart, Pennsylvania

摘要

A 24-year old male machine operator (the victim) died after a coil cart he was211u001erepairing fell on top of him. The victim was working with another worker on a 211u001emachine designed to press coils of steel into flat sheets, when the coil cart 211u001eused to bring steel coils to the press failed to operate. The victim discovered 211u001ethat the chain had come off the chain-and-sprocket assembly under the cart. He 211u001eused a forklift to lift the coil cart approximately 1 foot from the floor, and 211u001ewith the coil cart suspended on the forks, crawled under the coil cart to re-211u001einstall the chain. The coil cart slipped off the forks of the forklift and 211u001ecrushed the victim. A co-worker, who had been holding a flashlight for the 211u001evictim, saw the coil cart fall and tried to pull the victim out from under the 211u001ecart but was unable to move him. The cart fell directly on the victim's upper 211u001ebody. Workers in the area called an ambulance and the shift leader.