Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 94513.015 - Employee is engulfed in grain and killed

Accident Summary Nr: 94513.015 -- Report ID: 0552652 -- Event Date: 09/16/2015
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1092841.015	09/16/2015		493130	Archer Daniels Midland Company

Abstract: At 1:30 p.m. on September 16, 2016, an employee was checking a rail line with a level during railroad spur line tamping and reconstruction operations. The contracted employee was checking the rail line spur's level, which was approximately 15-20 feet from the north wall of the flat storage building (East), when the wall collapsed and the employee was engulfed in grain (wheat). The employee was pushed under the tamper by the force of the grain and was trapped. The employee was killed from asphyxiation.

Keywords: Asphyxiated, Flowing Material, Grain Elevator, Railroad, Structural Collapse

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	1092841.015	21	M	Fatality		Rail vehicle operators, n.e.c.

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