OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #672311
ORVILLE REDENBACHER POPCORN BEATRICE HUNT
BROOKSTON, IN·
Event description
TWO EMPLOYEES INJURED WHEN BURIED IN CORN BIN
Investigation abstract
AT APPROXIMATELY 11:30 AM ON SEPTEMBER 23, 1987, EMPLOYEES #1 AND #2, LABORERS, AND EMPLOYEE #2 WAS BURIED UP TO HIS NECK. EMPLOYEE #1 WAS PULLED OUT OF THE CO RN THROUGH THE CONVEYOR DOOR., WHILE EMPLOYEE #2 WAS PULLED BACK OUT OF THE TOP OF THE CORN. EMPLOYEE #1 WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL, TREATED FOR MULTIPLE BRUISES AND ABRASIONS AND RELEASED. EMPLOYEE #2, WHO ALSO SUFFERED MULTIPLE BRUISES AND ABRASIONS, WAS NOT TREATED. WERE WORKING INSIDE STORAGE BIN #107 AT AN ORVILLE REDENBACHER POPCORN STORAGE F ACILITY. FOUR OTHER WORKERS WERE ALSO IN THE BIN, WHICH IS LOCATED ONE MILE NORT H OF BROOKSTON, INDIANA. THE EMPLOYEES WERE RAKING UNSHELLED POPCORN DOWN TO A C ONVEYOR AT THE BASE OF THE BIN. NEITHER OF THE INJURED EMPLOYEES HAD BEEN PROVID ED WITH A SAFETY HARNESS AND LANYARD. EMPLOYEE #1, LOCATED FURTHER DOWN IN THE B IN THAN EMPLOYEE #2, STARTED SLIDING DOWN INTO THE UNSHELLED CORN. EMPLOYEE #2 T RIED TO REACH HER WITH HIS RAKE, BUT SUCCEEDED ONLY IN SLIDING DOWN INTO THE COR N HIMSELF. BY THE TIME THE CONVEYOR WAS STOPPED EMPLOYEE #1 WAS COMPLETEY BURIED
Victims (2)
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#1 Non-hospitalized injury Age 23 F
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 43
- Occupation code
- 889
- Human factor
- 20
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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#2 Non-hospitalized injury Age 31 M
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 43
- Occupation code
- 889
- Human factor
- 20
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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