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Accident: 690180 - Employee Dies Of Asthma Attack Triggered By Grain Dust

Accident: 690180 -- Report ID: 0552700 -- Event Date: 10/22/1992
InspectionOpen DateSICEstablishment Name
12044558010/22/19923523Featherlite Manufacturing, Inc.
Employee #1 was loading some equipment onto a flatbed trailer at a satellite building a half mile east of the main plant. The foreman of the building was assisting him. A grain handling facility is also located at the south end of the site. Employee #1 told the foreman that he could not handle the corn dust and had to leave. Employee #1, who had a history of asthma, was taking steroids and used an inhaler. Employee #1 drove a forklift across the gravel lot toward Highway 16, swerving as he approached the highway. A local truck driver at a nearby truck scale saw Employee #1 slumped over near the forklift. He had stopped, set the parking brake, and was attempting to get off the forklift. The truck driver, an EMT who also suffers from asthma, arrived and offered his aid. Employee #1 lost consciousness. The driver attempted to ventilate him, but had difficulty getting his mouth open. The ambulance arrived and took Employee #1 to a local football field, where a Mayo One helicopter arrived and transported him to St. Mary's Hospital in Rochester, where he was pronounced dead. The grain dust in the air may have triggered the asthma attack.
Keywords: loading, respiratory, unconsciousness, allergic reaction, inhalation, grain dust
Employee # Inspection Age Sex Degree Nature Occupation
1 120445580 Fatality Asphyxia Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators

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