OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14401301
COCANOUGHER FEED COMPANY
DECATUR, TX·
Event description
Employee suffocates after falling into rail car of corn
Investigation abstract
Employee #1, age 17, climbed on top of a rail car of corn after he had opened it s bottom hopper to unload the grain. He was found about one hour later with his legs hanging from the bottom of the hopper. Employee #1 had fallen into the rail car and suffocated.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 17 M
- Nature of injury
- 2
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 9
- Source
- 38
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 18
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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