OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14412944
PLB GRAIN STORAGE CORP
PLAINVIEW, TX—
Event description
Employee killed when buried in grain storage bin
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was working in a grain storage bin when he became trapped by the gra in and was slowly buried. He was killed. Employee #1 was not wearing any type of restraining device, and there were no emergency procedures or rescue-trained pe rsonnel.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 38 M
- Nature of injury
- 2
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 12
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 89
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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