September 8, 2023
PA · Metal/Non-Metal
warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator
Fatality · POWERED HAULAGE
Neiswonger Construction Inc
· Struck by falling object
Employee disregarded lock out tag safety training and climbed into a hopper without de-energizing equipment and without notifying other workers in the area. Loader operator had no way of knowing that anyone would be inside the hopper with the feeder belt running. Employee in the hopper was buried and crushed when loader operator dumped 18 tons of stone into hopper