TUE OCT 09 2012 ~12:20 PM
AURORA TOWNSHIP FIRE DEPARTMENT
EXTRICATION FROM MACHINE
2000 PLAIN AVE AURORA, IL
MAN TRAPPED IN CEMENT AUGER AND EXTRICATED. NO WORD ON CONDITION OF THE MAN. MEDICAL HELICOPTER TRANSPORT TO LEVEL I TRAUMA CENTER ADVOCATE GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL FROM THE SCENE AT DUKANE PRECAST -- A COMPANY THAT MAKES ARCHITECTURAL AND STRUCTURAL PRODUCTS.
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FLASHBACK: The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Dukane Precast Inc. in Naperville with four safety violations including one willful violation for failing to immediately call emergency services when a worker became engulfed in a sand bin and suffered serious crushing injuries.
Plant employees allegedly attempted to rescue the worker for more than an hour before the company summoned emergency assistance. Proposed fines total $70,000 ...The willful violation is for failing to immediately call rescue services when the worker became engulfed in sand after he had walked into the bin and onto the sand to level it. A willful violation is one committed with intentional knowing or voluntary disregard for the law's requirements, or with plain indifference to worker safety and health.
FLASHBACK: The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Dukane Precast Inc. in Naperville with four safety violations including one willful violation for failing to immediately call emergency services when a worker became engulfed in a sand bin and suffered serious crushing injuries.
Plant employees allegedly attempted to rescue the worker for more than an hour before the company summoned emergency assistance. Proposed fines total $70,000 ...The willful violation is for failing to immediately call rescue services when the worker became engulfed in sand after he had walked into the bin and onto the sand to level it. A willful violation is one committed with intentional knowing or voluntary disregard for the law's requirements, or with plain indifference to worker safety and health.
Three serious safety violations have been cited for failing to maintain a railing to protect workers from dangerous equipment, prevent unauthorized workers from entering a permit-required confined space and prepare entry permits prior to entering a confined space. A serious violation occurs when there is substantial probability that death or serious physical harm could result from a hazard about which the employer knew or should have known.
Dukane Precast Inc. is a concrete manufacturer that employs 90 workers. The company has been inspected by OSHA 14 times since 1981, and has been issued a total of 25 violations.
The Naperville Fire Department (NFD) spent several hours on February 6, 2012 freeing a 37-year-old employee of DuKane Precast from a sand silo. The silo, located inside the building, was elevated approximately 25 feet in the air and had limited access from a catwalk. A call for an entrapped worker was received at 11:23 hours by Naperville’s Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP). A Special Rescue response was initially dispatched. First units arrived on the scene and determined that additional technical rescue members and equipment would be needed.
Members of Naperville’s Technical Rescue Team (TRT) arrived and climbed up the catwalk to find the worker buried to his waist in the sand mixture inside the silo at 1808 High Grove Lane, Naperville. Initial efforts were made to secure the worker from sinking deeper into the sand. Under direction from Edward Hospital, paramedics initiated Advanced Life Support care on the worker in the silo before the sand could be moved. A medical helicopter was requested to the scene but was unable to respond due to poor weather conditions. Due to the complex nature of this incident, a Technical Rescue Box Alarm was called which brought in additional technical rescue personnel and equipment from 22 surrounding fire agencies. Two vacuum trucks from Naperville’s Department of Public Utilities (DP-U) were utilized allowing TRT members to begin vacuuming the sand from around the worker. Once the sand was cleared from around the worker’s waist, a rescue harness was placed on him. This allowed some sand to be drained from the bottom of the silo freeing the worker’s legs. Once freed, he was placed into a rescue basket and removed from the top of the silo and lowered to the ground. Crews moved the worker to the back of an ambulance for additional treatment and transport to Edward hospital.
NFD members were assisted on the scene by the Naperville Police Department, the Naperville Office of Emergency Management, and the Department of Public Utilities. Management from DuKane Precast provided support staff and technical assistance.
At the time of the Naperville press release on the same day the patient’s condition was stable.
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