Five Family Members Die After Entering Manure Waste Pit on Dairy Farm

doi:10.26616/NIOSHFACE8946

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Five Family Members Die After Entering Manure Waste Pit on Dairy Farm

1990/02/12
By National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
Series: Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)

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National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
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A 65 year old male dairy farmer, his 37 and 28 year old sons, a 15 year old grandson, and a 62 year old nephew died when they entered a manure waste pit with an oxygen deficient atmosphere. The farmer owned and operated a diary farm with his family. The manure pit had been installed 18 years ago. On the day of the accident it is thought that the 28 year old son entered the pit to replace the shear pin on the agitator shaft. The pump had not been operating for several days prior to the incident. The 15 year old nephew yelled to his 8 year old brother that their uncle had fallen into the pit. The younger boy ran to the farmhouse where the farmer's wife called several places to secure help. Meanwhile each of the victims apparently entered the pit to help those who had been overcome and each was overcome in turn. The cause of death for all five victims was asphyxiation. It is recommended that manure waste pits be identified as confined spaces, that manure waste systems be constructed in a manner that would allow maintenance to be performed on all serviceable components from outside the pits, that manure waste systems be equipped with some type of powered ventilation system, that manure waste systems never be entered unless absolutely necessary, that entrances to waste pits be covered by a grate like cover, that farm employers be educated as to the hazards of such pits, and that warnings be included on the equipment.
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Occupational Health Safety
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Accident-analysis Agricultural-workers Confined-spaces FACE-89-46 Livestock OSHA Region 5 Safety-research Toxic-gases Waste-disposal-systems Work-practices
FACE - NIOSH and State:

All (0000) ; Agriculture (0001) ; Confined Space (0004) ; Youth (0017) ; Youth Agriculture (0018)

All (0000) ; Agriculture (0001) ; Confined Space (0004) ; Youth (0017) ; Youth Agriculture (0018) Less -
Series:

Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
Subseries:

NIOSH (In-House)
DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHFACE8946
Publisher:

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
Document Type:

Text
Genre:

Field Study
Place as Subject:

Michigan ; OSHA Region 5

Michigan ; OSHA Region 5 Less -
CIO:

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
Division:

DSR - Division of Safety Research
Topic:

Workplace Safety & Health
Location:

North America
Pages in Document:

4 pages
NIOSHTIC Number:

00199718
NTIS Accession Number:

PB91-227454
Citation:

Morgantown, WV: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, FACE 89-46, 1990 Feb; :1-8
Federal Fiscal Year:

1990
Peer Reviewed:

False
NAICS and SIC Codes:

11 - Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting - (NAICS 2022)
Start Date:

1989/07/26
Resource Number:

FACE-89-46
Collection(s):

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
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