On September 14, 2012, a 47-year-old Hispanic worker died from crushing injuries received when he was struck by a hydraulic material handler. The scrap yard worker was a torcher whose duties were to cut up metal using a torch. The material handler involved in the fatality removed scrap metal off delivery trucks and onto trucks hauling to a metal recycling facility. There were no eye-witnesses to the incident, but it is believed that after directing a truck to the loading area, the torcher paused in front of the right-side track of the parked material handler, possibly for a cigarette break. The material handler operator put the equipment in forward gear. The torcher was caught in the track, knocked to the ground, and run over by the track. He was pronounced dead at the scene from multiple crushing injuries.


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    Titel :

    Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Report: Hispanic Scrap Yard Worker Dies When Struck By Material Handler at Metal Recycling Facility - South Carolina, FACE-2013-01


    Beteiligte:
    Miles V. (Autor:in) / Lincoln J. (Autor:in)

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2015


    Format / Umfang :

    14 pages


    Medientyp :

    Report


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch