Occupational
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Medicine
College of Human Medicine

Asphyxiation

CASE MIFACE Summaries of MIOSHA Inspections
Case 241 18-year-old and 17-year-old Hispanic male farm hands were asphyxiated in a 3000 gallon polyethylene feed tank contained fermented feed material.
Case 294 18-year-old farm hand died when he was engulfed in corn in a 20-foot wide by 64-foot high poured concrete silo.
Case 467

56-year-old grain elevator laborer died when he was asphyxiated due to being engulfed in corn dust during clean-out of a dust collector.

Case 522 35-year-old veterinarian died when he was buried under corn silage from an outdoor horizontal bunker silo at a dairy farm.