Accident Report Detail
Accident: 125264.015 - Employee Falls From Elevated Height And Is Killed
Accident: 125264.015 -- Report ID: 0521400 -- Event Date: 04/07/2020 | |||||||
Inspection | Open Date | SIC | Establishment Name | ||||
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1472054.015 | 04/08/2020 | Maplehurst Farms, Inc. | |||||
At approximately 1:30 p.m. on April 7, 2020, an employee was working alone, unsupervised, and without any other personnel working in the area at that time. The employee was somewhere at height on the subject east grain bucket elevator, and the fixed ladder ran on the north side of the subject leg and was caged with no intermittent landings/offset rest platforms. The distributor's platform and the leg's top platform were expended metal screen surfaces. The employee fell 65 feet and was killed. | |||||||
Keywords:
bucket elevator, grain, fixed ladder, fall, agriculture
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Employee # | Inspection | Age | Sex | Degree | Nature | Occupation | |
1 | 1472054.015 | 58 | M | Fatality | Dislocation | Elevator operators |