Hispanic Sawmill Worker Dies Inside Storage Silo After Being Engulfed in Sawdust - North Carolina: FACE 2004-09

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
• Description:
  On May 17, 2004, a 36-year-old Hispanic laborer (the victim) died after he entered a sawdust storage silo to unclog a sweep auger advance mechanism and became engulfed in sawdust. Several minutes after the victim entered the silo, a Hispanic coworker working nearby heard a noise from the silo which prompted him to call out to the victim. When he heard no response, he and several Hispanic co-workers began looking for the victim. After approximately 20 minutes of digging through the collapsed sawdust, they found him. Coworkers ran to several locations trying to report the incident and get help. They notified a company senior official who then called 911. Emergency Medical Services (EMS) responded within approximately 30-35 minutes of the presumed time of engulfment and attempted resuscitation. They transported the victim by ambulance to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead by the emergency room physician.
• Subjects:
  • Accidents, Occupational
  • Dust
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Occupational Health
  • Safety
• Keywords:
  • OSHA Region 4
  • Accident-analysis
  • Accident-prevention
  • Accidents
  • Injuries
  • Injury-prevention
  • Traumatic-injuries
  • Sawmill-workers
  • Dusts
  • Warning-signs
• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  All ; Confined Space ; Hispanic
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  NIOSH (In-House)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHFACE200409
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  North Carolina ; OSHA Region 4
• 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:
  11 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  deGuzman, Gerard ; Higgins, Doloris N. ; Kingman, Douglas M.
• Volume:
  2004
• Issue:
  9
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20026887
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2005-106844
• Citation:
  Morgantown, : U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2005
• NORA Priority Area:
  Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing
• Performing Organization:
  West Virginia University, School of Medicine, Institute of Occupational and Environmental Health, Morgantown, West Virginia
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  11 - Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting - (NAICS 2022)
• Start Date:
  1997/07/01
• End Date:
  2005/06/30
• Resource Number:
  FACE 2004-09
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/167290/cdc_167290_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.85 MB]
• Collection(s):
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program ; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:6e0ee946f59e153a596896ac714a97190886ec577c22238a556705fe11c195a24c3971ab24791844af11c798cf2ac51f33fcbff1d5687891827efa43bfc522b7