Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 145404.015 - Employee is killed when pulled into conveyor drive shaft

Accident Summary Nr: 145404.015 -- Report ID: 0524700 -- Event Date: 04/14/2022
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1589738.015	04/14/2022		311119	Hansen-Mueller Co.

Abstract: At 11:30 a.m. on April 14, 2022, an employee was working from atop a rail car that had been filled with oats via an overhead conveyor coming out of the facility. Shortly after sealing the five lids on the rail car, the employee walked back to the elevated access platform, when his horizonal running lanyard of his personal fall arrest system contacted the unguarded drive shaft of the conveyor. The attached lanyard became entangled on the rotating shaft pulling the employee into the frame of the conveyor. The employee suffered fractures to his neck and was killed.

Keywords: Blunt force trauma, Conveyor, Drive Shaft, Fall Protection, Flatbed Rail Car, Fracture, Neck, Pulled In, Rotating Parts, Unguarded

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	1589738.015	42	M	Fatality		Laborers, except construction

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