Silo maintenance worker dies after getting caught in unloading auger -- Iowa.

Johnson, Wayne; Rautiainen, Risto

doi:10.26616/NIOSHSFACE95IA005

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Silo maintenance worker dies after getting caught in unloading auger -- Iowa.

1995/10/27
By Johnson, Wayne ; Rautiainen, Risto
Series: Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)

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Johnson, Wayne ; Rautiainen, Risto

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Iowa Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Program (Iowa FACE) ; University of Iowa. College of Medicine. Institute for Rural and Environmental Health

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Description:

On February 24, 1995 a 27 year old worker for an agricultural maintenance company was killed while repairing a silo bottom unloading auger. The victim was working inside a cement silo filled with corn silage, repairing a sweep auger that was damaged due to frozen feed inside the silo. The worker was lying inside on the floor of the silo behind the auger safety shield when he shouted that he was clear of the auger. A workmate outside at the electric control panel turned on the auger for approximately 15 seconds to dislodge frozen corn silage in the auger. During that time the victim apparently reached to move a trouble light hanging near the auger, and got caught in the moving auger knives, severing his arm and shoulder, and causing severe chest injury. He was taken to a local hospital and pronounced dead on arrival in the emergency room. Recommendations following our investigation were as follows: 1. Employers should develop, implement, and enforce a comprehensive written safety program. 2. Employers installing, servicing and repairing silo equipment should provide employee training and proper equipment for confined space entry. 3. Employers and workers should develop a procedure to prevent intentional and unintentional operation of the silo unloading mechanism when a worker is inside a silo or in close proximity to the unloading augers.
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Publication Date provided by FACE program; not printed on the report.
Subjects:

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Accidents, Occupational Occupational Health Safety
Keywords:

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Accident-analysis Accident-prevention Accidents Agricultural-industry Agricultural-machinery Agricultural-workers Agriculture Equipment-design Equipment-reliability Injuries Injury-prevention Machine-guarding OSHA Region 7 Protective-measures Safety-education Safety-equipment Safety-measures Safety-monitoring Safety-programs Training Traumatic-injuries Work-analysis Work-areas Work-operations Work-performance Work-practices
FACE - NIOSH and State:

All (0000) ; Agriculture (0001) ; Prevention through Design (PtD) (0025)

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Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
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State
DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHSFACE95IA005
Publisher:

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
Document Type:

Text
Funding:

Cooperative Agreement
Genre:

Field Study
Place as Subject:

Iowa ; OSHA Region 7

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CIO:

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

Workplace Safety & Health
Location:

North America
Pages in Document:

4 pdf pages
NIOSHTIC Number:

20028228
NTIS Accession Number:

PB2009-106721
Citation:

Morgantown, WV: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, FACE 95IA005, 1995 Oct; :1-4
Federal Fiscal Year:

1996
Performing Organization:

Iowa Department of Public Health
Peer Reviewed:

False
NAICS and SIC Codes:

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

1992/09/30
End Date:

2006/08/31
Resource Number:

FACE-95IA005
Collection(s):

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
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