Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 68842.015 - Employee clearing jam is buried under seed and is killed

Accident Summary Nr: 68842.015 -- Report ID: 0418400 -- Event Date: 10/31/2014
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1005896.015	11/03/2014		115111	Boston Gin Company

Abstract: At 10:00 a.m. on October 31, 2014, an employee was working at ground level directing a truck and trailer into position underneath an overhead seed house to load cotton seed into the trailer. The employee was using a metal pipe to break a seed jam in the overhead seed house while sitting on the top edge of the seed truck. The jam was cleared, the seed began to flow, and the employee fell into the truck and was buried in the cotton seed. The employee was killed.

Keywords: Agriculture, Asphyxiated, Buried, Fall, Flowing Material, Trailer

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	1005896.015	31	M	Fatality		Laborers, except construction

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