OSHA’s Fatality Investigation Points to Bypassed Machine Guards
The investigation of the death of a lathe operator at a Wisconsin company revealed safety violations.
As he hand-polished a 40-inch long metal cylinder, a 36-year-old lathe operator at the Carlson Tool & Manufacturing Corp. in Cedarsburg, Wisc., became entangled in the machine’s operating spindle and suffered injuries that led to his death two days later. He had been employed at the company for two years.
