CASE | MIFACE Summaries of MIOSHA Inspections |
Case 116 | 50-year-old independent contractor died from complications sustained at a logging site when a stray branch/falling tree struck him |
Case 164 | 23-year-old logger died when he was crushed between a tree shear and a front-end loader frame. |
Case 208 | 59-year-old male employee at a fruit storage facility died when he entered a controlled atmosphere storage room. |
Case 209 | 29-year-old farm hand died when his shirt became entangled in an unguarded power take off (PTO) shaft while making feed for a dairy operation. |
Case 226 | 43-year-old farm manager died when the elevated arms and bucket of a skid steer loader fell and pinned him against the skid steer frame. |
Case 23 | 45-year-old tree trimming crewmember was killed when struck on head by falling tree. |
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 252 | 26-year-old farm hand was leveling corn inside of a 4-000-5000 bushel silo when he was found by his employer gasping for breath |
Case 270 | 62-year-old logging company owner died when he was run over by the John Deere 648GIII log skidder he was operating to level branches and wood chip piles. |
Case 281 | 40-year-old co-owner of a logging firm died when he was struck by a falling tree. |
Case 29 | 43-year-old logger died after being crushed by a falling tree. |
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 298 | 67-year-old farm hand died when he was struck by a 2006 Komatso WA 250 front-end loader with a 4-yard bucket measuring approximately 8 feet 10 inches in width while he was bent down cutting the strings on a bale of hay. |
Case 312 | 23-year-old logger died when a large tree fell onto him. |
Case 319 | 34-year-old co-owner of a logging business died when he was struck by a previously cut 22-inch diameter, 40-foot long tree limb. |
Case 352 | 46-year-old male owner of a logging firm died when he was struck by a rotten section of a poplar tree he had just hand felled. |
Case 353 | 44-year-old maintenance shop laborer died when he was struck by a non-seated pressurized tine rake tire he was servicing. |
Case 355 | 46-year-old beef cattle farmer died when he fell from the blade of a John Deere HLT bulldozer and was run over when the bulldozer moved forward. |
Case 376 | 14-year-old farm worker was working with family members on a family dairy farm when she became entangled in an elevator conveyor’s chain and sprocket. |
Case 405 | 60-year-old herdsman died when he was struck multiple times in the chest by a bull. |
Case 407 | 17-year-old farm hand at a hog-raising operation died from asphyxiation due to inhalation of the byproducts of incomplete combustion of a propane-powered pressure washer. |
Case 414 |
23-year-old laborer was overcome and drowned when he entered a 10,500 gallon molasses tank to reposition a drain pipe. |
Case 420 |
54-year-old farmer died when unsecured wooden crates fell from the forks of a forklift attachment to the front of a Massey Ferguson 360 farm tractor and struck him. |
Case 428 | 55-year-old dairy farmer died when he lost consciousness and drowned in liquid manure in a manure it. |
Case 444 | 70-year-old farm worker died when he and the unsecured manlift basket he was working from fell approximately 20 feet to a concrete floor. |
Case 464 | 80-year-old farm hand died when a tree branch from the downed tree being moved by his tractor struck him. |
Case 466 | 28-year-old wildlife remediation specialist drowned while attempting to save a coworker from drowning. |
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 469 | 19-year-old farm family member was electrocuted when the 21-foot-long metal pole he was using to knock down grain from the walls of a bin contacted an energized 4,800-volt overhead line. |
Case 470 | 45-year-old farm laborer died when he was run over by a Dutz 3006 farm tractor and trailer. |
Case 472 | 69-year-old farmer died when he was pinned between a 1967 Friday model cherry harvester and a barn wall. |
Case 474 | 69-year-old Hispanic laborer died when he was entangled in a Woods Mower Model HD 315-4 secondary PTO shaft while chopping corn stubble. |
Case 498 | 54-year-old farm hand died when he fell from an 8-foot podium step ladder to the ground. |
Case 505 | 64-year-old farm hand died when she was struck/pinned by dairy cows and/or a bull while moving them from a penned area. |
Case 522 | 35-year-old veterinarian died when he was buried under corn silage from an outdoor horizontal bunker silo at a dairy farm. |
Case 526 | 56-year-old truck mechanic died when he was struck by the steel lever arm responsible for lifting and lowering a logging trailer axle which broke at the pivot point due to an uncontrolled expanding air lift bag system. |
Case 532 | 19-year-old male farm hand guiding steel trusses for a hoop barn was electrocuted when a telehandler and the trusses contacted an energized 7,000-volt overhead power line. |
Case 2022-010 | 38 year-old head milker struck by wheel loader at night. |
Case 2022- 028 | 23 year-old field worker struck by falling tree. |