21-Year-Old Electrocuted While Moving Grain Auger in Indiana: FACE 86-22

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  A 21 year old warehouseman was electrocuted while he and another worker were attempting to move a grain auger. The warehouseman and a truck driver had been sent to a grain storage area to bring back a load of grain. They proceeded to the storage area to load grain from the storage bin into the truck for transport. The truck driver had been employed by this company for 1 month, the other man for 7 months. Neither had transferred grain at this particular facility before. Both men had commented on the presence of overhead power lines when they arrived at the site and were aware of the hazard while moving the auger. Attempts to move the auger by hand failed, and they could not lower it from its upright position. The workers attached a chain between the tractor and the auger and began pulling the auger back away from the grain bin. The truck driver was operating the tractor
  
  the warehouseman was on the ground guiding the auger with both hands. During the operation, the auger contacted two phases of a 12,400 volt distribution system. The driver saw the man on the ground fall and jumped from the tractor, receiving a shock when he hit the ground. Recommendations arising out of this accident include: identification of safety hazards that may be encountered at a work site either on or off the normal premises
  
  stressing of safe movement of grain augers
  
  and affixing of a safety warning sign to each auger that warns the user to lower before transporting and look up for overhead power lines.
• Content Notes:
  Publication date provided by the authoring office. There is no publication date indicated on the resource.
• Subjects:
  • Accidents, Occupational
  • Electric Injuries
  • Electricity
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Occupational Health
  • Safety
• Keywords:
  • OSHA Region 5
  • FACE-86-22
  • Electrical-hazards
  • Electrical-shock
  • Safety-practices
  • Electric-power-transmission-lines
• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  All ; Agriculture ; Electrocution
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  NIOSH (In-House) ; Worker Deaths by Electrocution: NIOSH 2000-115 ; Worker Deaths by Electrocution: NIOSH 98-131
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHFACE8622
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  Indiana ; OSHA Region 5
• 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:
  3 pdf pages
• Volume:
  1986
• Issue:
  22
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00170057
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB87-222766
• 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 86-22, 1986 Apr ; :1-5
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1986
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  31-33 - Manufacturing - (NAICS 2022)
• Start Date:
  1986/04/07
• Resource Number:
  FACE 86-22
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/164600/cdc_164600_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 350.19 KB]
• Collection(s):
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program ; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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