Industry Summary
As of the last reported data from 2015, there are 74,311 workers employed at 6,248 Farm Product Raw Material Merchant Wholesalers establishements in the United States. The industry is slowly growing, adding 12 jobs in the 12 months between 2014 and 2015. On average, each business employs 12 workers. Over the past 5 years this industry has recorded an accident rate of over 2 times (363% more) the average for the Merchant Wholesalers Nondurable Goods Industry.
The accident investigation below was opened on Wednesday, January 10th 2018 by OSHA representitives in Jerome, ID after learning of an incident at Producers Livestock Marketing Association which had occured on Tuesday, January 9th 2018. A 66 year old man working as a was killed on the job when the employee herding bulls was impaled on gate latch and was kille
Accident Date2018-01-09
Accident DegreeFatality
NarrativeAt 11:00 a.m. on January 9, 2018, an employee was herding bulls. A bull attacked the horse, and the employee was killed due to impalement on a cowboy latch on the gate.
The accident investigation below was opened on Tuesday, January 2nd 2018 by OSHA representitives in Wichita, KS at Gavilon Grain, Llc. A 32 year old man working as a was killed on the job when the two employees entered a grain bin to clean and both were kil
Accident Date2018-01-02
Accident DegreeFatality
NarrativeAt 2:20 p.m. on January 2, 2018, two employees entered a grain bin. The employees were engulfed and asphyxiated.
OSHA investigators arrived in Wichita, KS on Tuesday, January 2nd 2018 and began an accident investigation which had occured previously at Gavilon Grain, Llc. A 28 year old had been killed when the two employees entered a grain bin to clean and both were kil
Accident Date2018-01-02
Accident DegreeFatality
NarrativeAt 2:20 p.m. on January 2, 2018, two employees entered a grain bin. The employees were engulfed and asphyxiated.