Inspection Detail

Inspection: 1570837.015 - Green Products Company

Inspection Information - Office: Iowa 0751910

Investigation Summary

At 7:30 a.m. on December 27, 2021, an employee arrived at work for his shift and was working alone setting up for the day. The employee worked as a "toter" where he fills bags with milled corncob product. The corncob product has different pellet sizes requiring and different flow rates depending on pellet size. When the order shifts, the employee exits his work area and climbs sets of stairs outside of the building until he reaches the area where the chute size can be adjusted. To access the controls to change the size, the employee must climb a ladder in an enclosed area on the roof above the "toting" area. The employee went to this enclosed space to change the chute size for the order, and began climbing the ladder performing this task alone. The employee fell from the ladder breaking his left radius and second vertebra, incurring a head laceration, brain swelling, and scrapes to his right knee, shin, arm and wrist and required hospitalization.

Keywords: Arm, Ascending, Back, Blunt force, Blunt force trauma, Brain, Chute, Climbing, Concrete, Fall, Fall From Elevation, Fall Protection, Feed Mill, Fixed Ladder, Fracture, Head, Knee, Laceration, Ladder, Leg, Milling corn , Pelletizing Plant, Wrist