OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14506232
VALLEY BUILDING SUPPLY CO
Grand Junction, CO—
Event description
EMPLOYEE BURIED UNDERNEATH CINDER MATERIAL IN STORAGE BIN
Investigation abstract
THE CINDER MATERIAL IN A STORAGE BIN WAS NOT FLOWING PROPERLY TO THE MIXER. EMPL OYEE #1 ENTERED THE TOP OF THE BIN TO DISLODGE THE CINDER MATERIAL. APPARENTLY, THE CINDER WAS "BRIDGED". WHEN EMPLOYEE #1 REACHED THE TOP OF THE CINDER MATERIA L, IT CAVED-IN. HE WAS COMPLETELY BURIED AND WAS ASPHYXIATED. IT TOOK RESCUE WOR KERS THREE HOURS TO FIND HIS BODY.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 28 M
- Nature of injury
- 2
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 12
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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