Incident date: 2020-10-16
NAICS industry code: 484230

An employee was hauling cotton seed and arrived on-site for a load. When one of the bins would not drop cotton seed, the employee opened the back gate to the trailer and stood on the cotton seed to poke the seed. The cotton seed fell, engulfing the employee. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Engulfment in other collapsing material
code_source: title: Field crops
code_nature: title: Asphyxiations, strangulations, suffocations
code_body: title: BODY SYSTEMS
severity: moderate