Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 690990 - Employee's arm and leg amputated by rail car

Accident Summary Nr: 690990 -- Report ID: 0854910 -- Event Date: 10/17/1986
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
102093390	10/17/1986	4221	0	Scoular Grain Company Of Utah

Abstract: Employee #1 was unloading grain from several rail cars, moving around the warehouse by way of moving line tracks that service the warehouse complex. Employee #1 was working near five empty rail cars on the main line tracks when two coworkers brought two full cars into the area and bumped them into the five empty cars, which moved 94 ft. Employee #1 was found under one of the rail cars between the main line tracks. His left arm and leg had been amputated and he was hospitalized. The cars that he had been unloading were sitting on a side line.

Keywords: AMPUTATED, WORK RULES, RAILROAD CAR, OFF LOADING, ARM, RUN OVER, TRAIN, LEG

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	102093390			Hospitalized injury	Amputation	Machine feeders and offbearers

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