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OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14412944

WORK RULES,FLOWING MATERIAL,RESTRAINING DEVICE,BURIED,GRAIN BIN

Event
WORK RULES,FLOWING MATERIAL,RESTRAINING DEVICE,BURIED,GRAIN BIN
Linked inspection
No inspection record linked to this accident's victims.
Summary number
14412944
Report ID
627400

Event description

Employee killed when buried in grain storage bin

Investigation abstract

Employee #1 was working in a grain storage bin when he became trapped by the gra in and was slowly buried. He was killed. Employee #1 was not wearing any type of restraining device, and there were no emergency procedures or rescue-trained pe rsonnel.

Victim

  1. #1 Fatality Age 38 M

    Nature of injury
    2
    Part of body
    4
    Event type
    12
    Source
    42
    Occupation code
    89
    Human factor
    1
    Environmental factor
    8
    Task assigned
    1

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