Incident date: 2016-10-04
NAICS industry code: 424910

An employee was operating a loader to load dry fertilizer into a truck when a wall of dry (hard) fertilizer broke loose, broke the windshield of the loader, and engulfed the loader and the employee up to the middle of his chest. He suffered breathing difficulties and leg contusions, requiring hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Engulfment in other collapsing material
code_source: title: Fertilizers, plant food, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Asphyxiations, strangulations, suffocations
code_body: title: BODY SYSTEMS
severity: moderate