Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 82919.015 - Employee is killed when caught in grain elevator

Accident Summary Nr: 82919.015 -- Report ID: 0627700 -- Event Date: 02/09/2016
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
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.

Keywords: Access/Egress, Agriculture, Amputation, Caught In, Conveyor, Decapitated, Grain Elevator, Struck By

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	1124224.015	51	M	Fatality		Farm equipment mechanics

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