OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221431976

GEM STATE PROCESSING, LLC

HEYBURN, ID· 2022-01-26T00:00:00

Event: Belt, Catwalk, Conveyor, Engineering Controls, Fall, Fall From Elevation, Fall Protection, Floor Grate, Floor Hole, Fracture, Grate, Head, Installing, Lack of Engineering Controls, Lack of Work Procedures, Maintenance, Material Handling, Mechanic, Misjudgment, Misjudgment of Hazardous Situation, Safety Device, Torso, Walking Surface, Work Surface
NAICS: 311423
Inspection type: Federal Agency
Activity number: #345750806
Employer profile: GEM STATE PROCESSING, LLC
Summary number: 221431976
Report ID: 1032500

Event description

Employee is killed in fall through catwalk

Investigation abstract

At 3:00 a.m. on January 26, 2022, an employee who worked as a Maintenance Mechanic for a food manufacturing company died from a 15-foot fall. The employee and a coworker (Night Shift Maintenance Lead) were installing a belt on a conveyor. The employee fell through a 15-foot high catwalk to the concrete ground below. The employee and coworker had previously removed a section of the metal catwalk grate so they could pull the new conveyor belt through the conveyor. The employee incurred head and torso fractures which killed him.

Victim

#1 Fatality Age 62 M

Event type
5

Occupation code
519

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