Accident Report Detail

Accident: 94513.015 - Employee Is Engulfed In Grain And Killed

**Accident: 94513.015 -- Report ID: 0552652 -- Event Date: 09/16/2015**
Inspection	Open Date	SIC	Establishment Name
1092841.015	09/16/2015		Archer Daniels Midland Company

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 contr acted 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 wa ll collapsed and the employee was engulfed in grain (wheat). The employee was pu shed under the tamper by the force of the grain and was trapped. The employee wa s killed from asphyxiation.

Keywords: asphyxiated, flowing material, grain elevator, railroad, structural collapse

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

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