OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #689281
BLUE EARTH RENDERING CO
BLUE EARTH, MN·
Event description
Employee killed in fall into bin
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was using a push broom to push miscellaneous turkey parts that had s wn in the bin on top of the first auger with a large laceration to the face. He had been killed. Causal factors include unsafe work practices and lack of guardr ails. pilled onto the floor and put them behind the open tailgate of a semi-trailer. A coworker on a skidloader was scooping up the sweepings and dumping them into th e Equa cooker raw material bin, approximately 3 ft beyond the tailgate of the se mi-trailer, which was raised. The bin was 7 ft 10 in. deep to the top of three 1 4 in. diameter augers. There was no guardrail for the 20 ft wide dump area, only a curb 13 1/2 in. high. The skidloader operator heard a noise that sounded like frozen chunks sliding out of the semi-trailer, hitting the tailgate, then landi ng on the floor. The operator went to check on Employee #1 and found him face do
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 53 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 756
- Human factor
- 18
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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