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  • Occupational Safety and Health
  • Industrial Accident Analysis
  • Mechanical Engineering Safety

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  • Caught-in-between (CIB) incidents involving machinery and vehicles represent a significant cause of workplace fatalities.
  • Previous analyses often lack a systematic approach to identify the root causes across diverse industrial sectors.
  • Understanding specific accident patterns is crucial for developing effective, targeted safety interventions.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To systematically analyze 312 CIB fatalities to identify common contributing factors and accident patterns.
  • To apply Boolean algebra and minimal cut set (MCS) analysis to determine the primary causes of CIB fatalities across various machinery and vehicle types.
  • To provide a data-driven basis for developing precise and effective prevention strategies.

Main Methods:

  • Development of a comprehensive, mutually exclusive coding scheme for analyzing CIB fatalities.
  • Inclusion of victim demographics, industry type, injury source, and accident causes in the analysis.
  • Application of Boolean algebra and MCS analysis to identify critical causal factors for each injury source.

Main Results:

  • Fatalities were categorized based on injury sources including special process machinery, metal/woodworking machinery, conveyors, vehicles, cranes, construction machinery, and elevators.
  • MCS analysis revealed shared primary causes for CIB fatalities across special process machinery, metal/woodworking machinery, and conveyors.
  • Identified key contributing factors: lack of safeguards, working on running machinery, unintentional activation, unsafe posture/position, unsafe clothing, and defective safeguards.

Conclusions:

  • CIB fatalities can be significantly reduced by addressing identified common causes such as inadequate safeguards and unsafe work practices.
  • The study provides a framework for grouping accident causes, enabling the development of sector-specific and generalizable prevention measures.
  • Targeted interventions focusing on the identified critical factors can lead to a substantial decrease in machinery and vehicle-related workplace deaths.