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Occupational Safety and Health Administration OSHA

Accident: 124791.015 - Employee, Engulfed By Rocks In Hopper, Is Killed

**Accident: 124791.015 -- Report ID: 0626700 -- Event Date: 03/05/2020**
Inspection	Open Date	SIC	Establishment Name
1467651.015	03/05/2020		Williams Brothers Construction Co., Inc.

At 1:00 a.m. on March 5, 2020, Employee #1, employed by a construction company, was attempting to repair a conveyor belt motor while standing on top of a holdin g hopper. The hopper gates opened, and the employee fell into the hopper, which contained stone and rock debris. The employee was engulfed in the rocks. Empl oyee #1 sustained blunt force trauma to his chest and abdomen and was killed by suffocation/asphyxiation.

Keywords: abdomen, asphyxiated, blunt force trauma, chest, construction, conveyor belt, engulfed, equipment failure, fall, hopper, rock, suffocated

Accident Details
End Use		Proj Type		Proj Cost	Stories	NonBldgHt	Fatality
Highway, road, street		New project or new addition					X

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection	Age	Sex	Degree	Nature
1	1467651.015	56	M	Fatality

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