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lt is with sincere regret that we are reporting another `atality, whivh male: Four so
far this year, also come serious accidents wh ch have occurred within the iact few
week:. We hope that all cf these accidents and their prevention will be river wide
publicity and that everything possible will be dcne t; prevent similar occurrences.
Your united efforts are solicited to stem this apgarent rise in serious accidents.
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in§,death — A ol-year~cld laborer ar the second shift, with 9 years of Company ser~
vice and experience on the No, 2 fcundry unit, was fatally injured about l@;35 p.m.
on August Q. His job was tn place metal jacketr an the finished molds in tlc con—
veycr and then, after the mold; had been ppured, te remove the jackets on the cp»o- _·_.
site side of the conveyor before the shaEe—cut cperaticn was performed.
About lO p.m. this employe asked for a relief man so he could take a brief rest
period, as was the custom, and when he returned the relief man relieved the next
operator stationed about S feet to the north, whose job is to place and then later
remove the weights from the molds. Thcrtly thereafter the supervisor, noticing that
a number of molds were clogging up the tunnel entrance on the east side of the con-
veyor, had the power shut off and called for a millwright to check the reason for
the conveyor not operating properly. After removing about three molds, the mill-
wright discovered the feet of an individual who was lying head first and face down-
ward on one side of the conveyor under the exhaust cover cf the unit. After taking
away about 6 feet of this cover they were able to remove the body.
The wooden mallet and hand pads which this employe used normally were found on an
empty car just ahead of where his body was found. lt could be assumed (as there
were no witnesses to the accident] that he reached for these articlec and fell onto
the conveyor; however none of the 20—odd men working in the vicinity heard hin cry
out, and therefore it is possible that he either fainted or suffered some ether
physical disability, fell onto the conveyor, and was unable to call out to his fel-
low employes.
The conveyor, which moves about 12 feet per minute, is completely covered, except
for the work areas, and there are no gears or moving parts which could have caught
the employe. The flat surface of the conveyor consists of metal plates 30 inches
long, on which the molds are placed, and there is no space between these plates
except when the conveyor is rounding the bends of the unit where it is completely
guarded. (See sketch on next page.)
EP~\35-B. 4-9. Printed in United States of America