OSHA investigators arrived in Denver, CO on Wednesday, September 20th 2017 and began an accident investigation after learning of an incident at Colorado Petroleum Products Company which had occured on Monday, September 18th 2017. A 54 year old man working as a Machinery maintenance occupation was injured on the job when the employee was caught in palletizer and sustained broken ribs an
Accident Date2017-09-18
Accident DegreeHospitalized injury
NarrativeAt 3:00 p.m. on September 18, 2017, Employee #1 was operating the palletizer, when the machine became jammed. The employee removed the guard and entered the danger zone with the machine still energized, in order to clear a jam. The employee was caught in between the ram of the palletizer and the frame of the machine, and sustained broken ribs and internal injuries. Employee #1 was hospitalized for two or more days.