Accident Report Detail
Accident Summary Nr: 82919.015 - Employee is killed when caught in grain elevator
Inspection Nr | Date Opened | SIC | NAICS | Establishment Name |
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1124224.015 | 02/10/2016 | 424510 | Western Producers Cooperative |
Abstract: At 4:30 p.m. on February 9, 2016, an employee was unjamming blockage in a grain chute leading to an elevator leg. The employee somehow entered the grain chute leading to the elevator leg and slid head first down the chute into the operating leg. The operating elevator leg buckets struck employee in the head and decapitated him.
Employee # | Inspection Nr | Age | Sex | Degree of Injury | Nature of Injury | Occupation |
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1 | 1124224.015 | 51 | M | Fatality | Farm equipment mechanics |