Incident date: 2019-08-28
NAICS industry code: 311211

An employee was preparing to clean up grain from the outside of a grain bin using a grain vacuum. When the vacuum was started, it sucked on to the grain door. It then released suddenly as the employee pulled it off; the employee fell backwards and hit his head and back on a drag conveyor. He suffered a contusion to the back of the head.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall onto or against object on same level, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Floors, walkways, ground surfaces, unspecified
code_nature: title: Bruises, contusions
code_body: title: Scalp
severity: moderate