Lockout/Tagout Accidents (includes Machine Guarding)

Line Break Gone Bad (128 psi gas)

A contractor was injured and evacuated after a gas release incident on an offshore facility in the Gulf of America. The incident occurred while a contract employee was performing maintenance on an E-body control valve on a six-inch gas line. BSEE’s investigation found that residual pressure estimated at 128 psi inside the six-inch gas line…...

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Equipment Opening gone bad (bolts stripped – not @ a ZES)

On March 25, 2003, two employees working for an power generation facility were instructed to remove a cover plate from an electrical generator. The hydrogen gas had been purged from the generator and replaced with air pressurized at approximately 40 psi. The generator was pressurized with air so that the workers could perform a leak…...

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Maintenance Tech By-Passes Guard Interlock – Machine Operator turned the machine from manual to auto and reactivated the machine, killing Tech ($145K)

At 11:00 a.m. on June 7, 2024, an employee, 50, working as a machinery maintenance technician for a frozen food manufacturer, was troubleshooting a ring remover since food trays were getting stuck. The employee bypassed the magnetic safety interlock gates and crawled underneath the conveyor. A coworker, the machine operator, was not aware that the…...

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LOTO Accidents 6

LOTO Accidents #6 This page was last updated on 05/06/2010 LOCK IT OUT!!! Santa Maria Man Killed in Industrial Accident (a man is dead after a tragic industrial accident – incident happened at an oil company – co-workers of the victim say he was a single father of an 8-year-old child and had worked for…...

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LOTO Accidents 5

LOTO Accidents #5 This page was last updated on 05/06/2010 Man crushed by baler; Recycling center employee flown to San Jose trauma unit By KEVIN HOWE A worker at a Monterey recycling center was taken by helicopter to San Jose after his chest was crushed in a baling machine Friday morning. Juan Ortega, 27, was…...

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LOTO Accidents 4

LOTO Accidents #4 This page was last updated on 05/06/2010 Landscaper Killed After Legs Get Shredded In Wood Chipper ALLENHURST, N.J. — A landscaper who kicked a tree branch to force it into a wood chipper was fatally injured when his legs got pulled into the shredder. Monmouth County authorities identified the man as Rigoberto…...

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LOTO Accidents 3

LOTO Accidents #3 This page was last updated on 05/06/2010 UPDATE Injured Owens Corning worker released from hospital By Jonathan Athens Advocate Reporter  NEWARK — Federal inspectors are investigating Owens Corning in the wake of a mishap that cost a 48-year-old Newark man his right arm. Thomas Brunner was discharged Wednesday from Grant Medical Center…...

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LOTO Accidents 2

LOTO Accidents #2 This page was last updated on 05/06/2010   Man whose hand was severed to receive $1.75M Tuesday, October 29, 2002 A former Paterson man who suffered a severed hand while working at a Coca-Cola plant will receive a $1.75 million settlement of a four-year-old lawsuit. John Betancourth, 50, whose hand was reattached…...

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LOTO Accidents 1

LOTO Accidents #1 This page was last updated on 05/06/2010   UPDATE, OSHA clears J.R. Wheel for restart; Worker at the factory was killed over weekend in incident with robot BY STEPHEN DYER, Beacon Journal staff writer NORTON: The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has allowed J.R. Wheel to start making wheels again. A robot…...

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LOTO Accidents Page

NIOSH Alert – Preventing Worker Deaths from Uncontrolled Release of Electrical, Mechanical, and Other Types of Hazardous Energy OSHA’s LOTO Page OSHA’s Accident Investigation Summaries involving Lockout/Tagout LOTO Accidents #1 LOTO Accidents #2 LOTO Accidents #3 LOTO Accidents #4 LOTO Accidents #5 LOTO Accidents #6 (most recent accidents)… Membership Required You must be a member...

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