Youth Farm Worker Dies After Falling into Operating Feed Grinder/Mixer - Ohio: FACE 2002-10

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
• Description:
  On August 15, 2002, a 14-year-old male farm worker (the victim) died after falling into an operating cattle feed grinder/mixer. The victim was using a handheld hay hook to drop hay bales into the operating grinder from the top of a stack of hay bales. He apparently lost his footing, slipped, and fell into the grinder. Approximately 20 minutes later, a coworker entered the area and noticed that the grinder was running unattended. He then called out to the victim and received no response. After looking into the mixing/grinding area of the machine he realized that the victim had fallen into the operating grinder and immediately stopped the machine. Emergency Medical Service (EMS) was summoned via 911 and responded within minutes. The coroner pronounced the victim dead on site.
• Subjects:
  • Accidents, Occupational
  • Accidental Falls
  • Adolescent
  • Agriculture
  • Farmers
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Occupational Health
  • Safety
• Keywords:
  • OSHA Region 5
  • Traumatic-injuries
  • Accident-prevention
  • Safety-practices
  • Safety-measures
  • Safety-education
  • Machine-operation
  • Machine-operators
  • Equipment-operators
  • Hazards
  More +
• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  All ; Agriculture ; Machine (All) ; Machine - Farming ; Youth ; Youth - Agriculture ; Prevention through Design (PtD)
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  NIOSH (In-House)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHFACE200210
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; 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:
  9 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Koedam, Robert E.
• Volume:
  2002
• Issue:
  10
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20023954
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2005-100554
• 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:
  2004
• NORA Priority Area:
  Construction
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  11 - Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting - (NAICS 2022)
• Start Date:
  2003/05/15
• Resource Number:
  FACE 2002-10
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/167349/cdc_167349_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 591.58 KB]
• Collection(s):
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program ; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:8d5c3acb5f305a8f9e03df0755f93c01f1a4856dfa7cb077242732a9d8d46cc5f986ba70aa1cbdcab195d0bce6a30a627d12e9d1f9207a3611034981ac925774