Accident Report Detail

Accident: 82160.015 - Employee Is Killed When Buried In Grain

**Accident: 82160.015 -- Report ID: 0751910 -- Event Date: 12/29/2015**
Inspection	Open Date	SIC	Establishment Name
1116402.015	12/30/2015		Benton Grain Company, Llc.

At 2:45 p.m. on December 29, 2015, an employee had been using a VacBoss 6068 pow er-take-off (PTO) driven vacuum to remove grain material from a large, flat stor age building onsite. The worker entered the building to vacuum the grain when t he grain collapsed and completely engulfed him. The employee was killed from asp hyxiation.

Keywords: asphyxiated, crushed, grain, grain elevator

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection	Age	Sex	Degree	Nature	Occupation
1	1116402.015	56	M	Fatality		Laborers, except construction

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