OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14335657

ASPHYXIATED,AGRICULTURE,GRAIN,WORK RULES,CORN,FLOWING MATERIAL,BRIDGED MATERIAL,BURIED,CAVE-IN,SILO

1988-09-07T00:00:00

Event: ASPHYXIATED,AGRICULTURE,GRAIN,WORK RULES,CORN,FLOWING MATERIAL,BRIDGED MATERIAL,BURIED,CAVE-IN,SILO
Linked inspection: No inspection record linked to this accident's victims.
Summary number: 14335657
Report ID: 418600

Event description

Employee dies of asphyxia in cracked corn storage silo

Investigation abstract

Working alone, Employee #1 entered a grain storage silo containing cracked corn (corn screens) to break up a bridging condition. Corn had built up on the sides of the silo. The corn caved in on him and he died of asphyxia.

Victim

#1 Fatality Age 32 M

Nature of injury
2

Part of body
4

Event type
14

Source
43

Occupation code
999

Human factor
1

Environmental factor
18

Task assigned
1

Codes shown verbatim from OSHA's accident-investigation database. A human-readable decoder is coming in a future release once the accident_lookup2 dictionary is loaded.