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A man died after getting caught in a conveyor belt mechanism he was working on at a UPS facility in Kansas City, Mo.
The 25-year-old man, whose identity has not been released, was maintaining the equipment when the accident happened, the Kansas City Fire Department told KSHB-TV.
“We had a contractor working on a conveyer belt at a UPS package-handling facility,” Assistant Chief of Emergency Services Jimmy Walker told the Daily News on Tuesday.
A cleaning crew found the man tangled in the machinery at around 6 p.m. Monday, Walker said.
“We don’t really know how long he was there,” Walker said. “He was working alone. He was bound up in the machinery. There’s rollers in there, and he got caught up in between the belt and the rollers.”
Officials from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration were en route to investigate, the agency said.
“OSHA compliance officers have opened an investigation at the UPS facility at 1010 N. Century Ave,” the agency told The News in a statement. “OSHA will work to complete their investigation as soon as possible.”
OSHA has six months to complete its investigation, and said it would not release any more information until that was done.
Though the man worked for a vendor and not directly for UPS, the delivery service expressed condolences and said it was working closely with investigators.
“We are saddened for the loss of a vendor’s employee, who was maintaining equipment at one of our facilities,” UPS told The News. “We are working with the responding authorities, and extend our heartfelt condolences to the individual’s family, friends and coworkers.”
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