Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 79614.015 - Employee crushed by tons of wheat

Accident Summary Nr: 79614.015 -- Report ID: 0552652 -- Event Date: 09/16/2015
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1092499.015	09/16/2015		488210	Industrial Railroad Services Llc

Abstract: At 1:30 p.m. on September 16, 2015, an employee working as part of a railroad repair team, was checking the level of newly laid rails on spurs in a Grain Handling facility. As the employee used a level to check the rail lines, an adjacent flat storage building being loaded with wheat collapsed and buried the employee in flowing grain. His other two co-workers were able to escape the collapse. The employee was killed and crushed by tons of wheat grain.

Keywords: Buried, Collapse, Crushed, Grain

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury
1	1092499.015	22	M	Fatality

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