On Thursday, November 8th 2018 OSHA reps took a report of a serious accident in North Platte, NE after learning of an incident at Western Engineering Co., Inc. which had occured on Wednesday, November 7th 2018. A 28 year old man working as a Laborer was killed on the job when the
Accident Date2018-11-07
Accident DegreeFatality
NarrativeAt 1:45 p.m. on November 7, 2018, Employee #1 was working at an asphalt production plant and preparing to take the temperature of asphalt entering the slat conveyor chute from a mixing drum with a shovel and a metal bucket. Employee #1 reached in to the open feed chute of a chain driven asphalt drag/slat conveyor, likely to retrieve a dropped sample bucket. Employee #1 was pulled by his arm into the unguarded drag/slat conveyor. He was also almost completely covered with hot asphalt. The employee was killed from head and torso crushing injuries along with severe burns from hot asphalt.