OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14327894
MAINTENANCE,SUFFOCATED,GRAIN,WORK RULES,CLOGGED,FLOWING MATERIAL,FALL,GRAIN ELEVATOR
Event description
Employee dies of suffocation after fall into grain
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 entered a scale bin in a grain elevator to clear a grain blockage by probing a distributor below the bin. When the distributor was rotated to anothe r chute Employee #1 fell into the distributor. He suffocated in the fine, powder y grain and died.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 62 M
- Nature of injury
- 2
- Part of body
- 28
- Event type
- 8
- Source
- 14
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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