Accident Report Detail
Accident: 95993.015 - Five Employee Killed; Twelve Employee Are Hospitalized In Mu
Accident: 95993.015 -- Report ID: 0523300 -- Event Date: 05/31/2017 | |||||||
Inspection | Open Date | SIC | Establishment Name | ||||
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1236533.015 | 06/01/2017 | Didion Milling, Inc. | |||||
At 11:00 p.m. on May 31, 2017, nineteen employees were completing several work a ctivities at a dry corn milling facility that included flour milling operations, bulk and bag loading operations, forklift operations, and laboratory operations . There was a report for a smoke fragrance and several employees went to invest igate the source. Two employees detected an explosion and fire in the basement of B mill and were exiting the mill when multiple explosions occurred. Five emp loyees were fatally injured due to burns and/or blunt force trauma. Three emplo yees received serious injuries requiring hospitalization, and nine employees rec eived serious injuries requiring medical treatment. | |||||||
Keywords:
amputation, combustible dust, crushing, explosion, fire, structural collapse
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Employee # | Inspection | Age | Sex | Degree | Nature | Occupation | |
1 | 1236533.015 | 29 | M | Fatality | Packaging and filling machine operators | ||
2 | 1236533.015 | F | Hospitalized injury | Quality Assurance Inspector | |||
3 | 1236533.015 | 42 | M | Non Hospitalized injury | Machine operators, not specified | ||
4 | 1236533.015 | 46 | M | Fatality | Packaging and filling machine operators | ||
5 | 1236533.015 | 30 | M | Non Hospitalized injury | Packaging and filling machine operators | ||
6 | 1236533.015 | 49 | M | Non Hospitalized injury | Locomotive operating occupations | ||
7 | 1236533.015 | 22 | M | Hospitalized injury | Laborers, except construction | ||
8 | 1236533.015 | 29 | M | Fatality | Laborers, except construction | ||
9 | 1236533.015 | 52 | M | Fatality | Freight, stock and material handlers, n.e.c. | ||
10 | 1236533.015 | 21 | M | Fatality | Laborers, except construction | ||
11 | 1236533.015 | 35 | M | Non Hospitalized injury | Machinery maintenance occupations | ||
12 | 1236533.015 | 23 | M | Hospitalized injury | Machine operators, not specified | ||
13 | 1236533.015 | M | Hospitalized injury | Machine operators, not specified | |||
14 | 1236533.015 | M | Non Hospitalized injury | Laborers, except construction | |||
15 | 1236533.015 | 56 | M | Non Hospitalized injury | Machinery maintenance occupations | ||
16 | 1236533.015 | M | Non Hospitalized injury | Packaging and filling machine operators | |||
17 | 1236533.015 | M | Hospitalized injury | Laborers, except construction |