OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14243422
SUFFOCATED,WORK RULES,FLOWING MATERIAL,OFF LOADING,BURIED,CRANE OPERATOR,COMMUNICATION,INATTENTION
Event description
Employee killed when buried in ore bin
Investigation abstract
Employee #1, a crane operator, had just dumped a hopper load of ore smelts into a transfer car bin at an ore bridge operation. He had apparently left the operat or's cab and was standing atop the pellets in the ore bin to clean off the windo ws of his cab when the transfer car operator dumped a load of pellets. Employee #1 died of suffocation.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 52 M
- Nature of injury
- 2
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 12
- Source
- 38
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 4
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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