OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #1002013
FS GRAIN & FEED LTD.
MT. AYR, IA·
Event description
Employee killed when storage bin collapsed
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was operating the controls for the auger and elevator leg in a grain dump area. The grain dump was under a 6,000 bushel overhead storage structure t hat was just over three-quarters full. The storage bins were supported by eight steel I-beam legs with steel shot welded to them. Soybeans were being dumped fro m a grain box dump truck. Apparently the farmer who owned the truck had activate d the dump mechanism and then walked to the back of the truck to talk to Employe e #1. The box of the dump truck struck the overhead storage bins and continued t o lift, overturning the bins and causing the structure to collapse. Employee #1 and the farmer were crushed and killed by the falling structure.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 37 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 779
- Human factor
- 11
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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