Accident: 170019335 - Killed In Fall From Roof

At approximately 12:30 p.m. on July 23, 2000, Employee #1 was laying asphalt shingles on a steep, 12 by 12 ft roof. He fell 24 ft to the ground and was killed. Employee #1 was not wearing a body harness.

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Accident: 123304750 - Hand Injured When Caught In Conveyor Belt

Employee #1, the lead person on the shift, was reaching into a moving conveyor belt to clear a jam when his hand was pulled into the belt. He sustained injuries that required hospitalization.

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Accident: 170002786 - Killed When Loader Overturns Down Embankment

At approximately 8:30 p.m. on May 26, 2000, Employee #1 was driving a CAT 988 front end loader when he went off the roadway, down a 20- to 30-ft embankment, and into a gravel pit. The loader flipped as it went over the embankment, landing on its top. Employee #1 sustained massive head and upper body injuries, and died at the scene. The top of the cab was crushed and it took 9 hours to extricate his trapped body from the vehicle.

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Accident: 170238612 - Killed In Garbage Truck Accident

On November 10, 1999, Employee #1 was driving a Peterbilt side-loading garbage truck south on Highway 99 when he failed to stop in time and rear-ended a Mazda sedan. The truck veered right and Employee #1 corrected the vehicle's direction by turning left. The centrifugal force pitched him out of the truck and he landed on the pavement. He sustained massive head injuries and died at the hospital the following day. Employee #1 was in the right-hand driving position; he was not wearing a seat belt.

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Accident: 170205058 - Fingertip Amputated When Caught In Exhaust Fan

At approximately 8:30 a.m. on September 14, 1999, Employee #1, a shift engineer for the Ritz Carlton Hotel in San Francisco since April 1991, was measuring the shaft diameter and shaft pulley diameter for a laundry machine in the mechanical room on the ninth floor of the hotel. He first disconnected the machine's electrical power using a disconnecting switch approximately 5 ft from the unit. He then he climbed the ladder to measure the pulley's diameter. He could see the fan belt was still rotating due to inertia. Employee #1's left hand apparently touched the fan and was drawn into the motor pulley, amputating the tip of his finger near the first knuckle. It was recommended that the employer establish a written instruction procedure for maintenance work on all machinery that may still have moving parts after they have been disconnected from the power source. This particular laundry machine's fan belt takes approximately 45 seconds to come to a complete stop. This accident may have been prevented if the employer had developed a written procedure to instruct employees to wait at least a minute after disconnecting the machine from the power source before removing the fan belt guard. The employer was cited for a violation of T8CCR 3314(a), that concerned cleaning, repairing, servicing, and adjusting machinery.

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Accident: 656082 - Killed In Fall While Walking On Beam

Employee #1 was walking across a support beam when he fell 17 ft onto a concrete floor. He was killed. Employee #1 was wearing an unattached harness at the time of the accident.

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Accident: 740639 - Arm Injured When Caught In Conveyor

On August 15, 1999, Employee #1 was part of a sanitation crew for a company that canned fresh peaches. He was working from a 12 ft fiberglass ladder and using a high pressure washer to remove peach residue from the 48 in. wide rubber conveyor belt as it was running. Employee #1's hose became caught in the in-running conveyor belt and his right arm and hand were pulled into the nip point. He sustained fractures to his upper and lower arm. Employee #1 then pulled free and fell to the concrete floor.

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