Youth Farm Worker Dies After Falling Into Operating Feed Grinder/Mixer - Ohio

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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:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Agriculture Farmers Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Occupational Health Safety Safety Management
• Keywords:
  Accident-prevention Agricultural-workers Equipment-operators Hazards Machine-operation Machine-operators OSHA Region 5 Safety-education Safety-measures Safety-practices Traumatic-injuries

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• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  FACE ; 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
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Construction ; Grant
• Genre:
  Field Study
• 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 pages
• Contributor:
  Koedam, Robert E.
• 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
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  11 - Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting - (NAICS)
• Start Date:
  2003/05/15
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:8d5c3acb5f305a8f9e03df0755f93c01f1a4856dfa7cb077242732a9d8d46cc5f986ba70aa1cbdcab195d0bce6a30a627d12e9d1f9207a3611034981ac925774
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/167349/cdc_167349_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 591.58 KB ]