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Incidents

Fatality Due to Failure to Lock Out a Machine

A federal investigation prompted by the death of a 17-year-old worker at a Wisconsin metal fabrication facility has
resulted in multiple safety and health violations.
The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has issued 16 serious and one
other-than-serious safety and health violations to G.D. Roberts & Co. Inc., for violations the agency's inspectors found
after a machine pinned and injured the teenaged worker on June 27, 2016. He died of his injuries on July 2, 2016.
Investigators determined the worker was clearing scrap below a loading table for an operating laser-cutter
system when the machine lowered onto the victim, trapping him beneath. OSHA found that the company failed to
ensure procedures to lockout the machine to prevent unintentional movement were followed and did not train its
employees properly in such safety procedures.

– U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration, OSHA

https://www.osha.gov/news/newsreleases/region5/12272016

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