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Dry Ice – Safe Use and Handling Fatality File – Spanish
Dry Ice – Safe Use and Handling Fatality File – Spanish
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Cuatro Dedos de un Empleado son Amputados por una Máquina de Hielo Seco

A las 6:45 a. m. del 9 de octubre de 2020, un empleado de 68 años trabajaba para una empresa que fabricaba gases industriales, como nitrógeno, oxígeno, dióxido de carbono, argón, hidrógeno, helio y acetileno. Se dedicaba al mantenimiento de maquinaria. Se encontraba en la planta de producción de hielo seco (dióxido de carbono sólido) de la empresa. Estaba solucionando un problema en una máquina de hielo seco IceTech SL1000. Los bloques de hielo seco que fabricaba no se formaban correctamente.

El empleado comenzó a solucionar el problema de la máquina abriendo la puerta de acceso a la caja de hielo para inspeccionarla. Cuando el empleado metió la mano en la caja de hielo, donde había un bloque de hielo mal compactado, los dedos de su mano izquierda quedaron atrapados inadvertidamente en una pieza giratoria dentro de la caja de hielo. El empleado sufrió la amputación de cuatro dedos de su mano izquierda. El empleado fue hospitalizado. La narración da a entender que las amputaciones se produjeron de forma instantánea y no durante una cirugía posterior.

Tras el incidente, el empleador añadió un sistema de control de energía que implementaba un dispositivo de control de energía en todas sus máquinas de fabricación de hielo seco en los Estados Unidos. Este sistema aislaba la energía peligrosa que alimentaba la parte giratoria dentro de las cajas de hielo, la parte que causó la lesión al empleado en este caso. Se instauró un sistema de enclavamiento compuesto por un dispositivo de enclavamiento y una programación electrónica de interfaz de la máquina para impedir la rotación de esta pieza desviando el flujo de energía eléctrica de cualquier componente electrónico (por ejemplo, el acentuador, el motor, etc.) siempre que la puerta de la nevera estuviera abierta.

Fuente:  https://www.osha.gov

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