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Worker loses toes in Waterville, Kansas, grain bin; incident due to safety violations

He walked into the grain storage bin on his own two feet, but he left in an ambulance. The 35-year-old had been working for the Beattie Farmers Union Cooperative for about a year when one day he became entangled in an auger that was inadvertently turned on while he was cleaning out the bin. At the hospital, doctors amputated all the toes on his left foot. The U.S. Department of Labor's ...

Feb. 24, 2015

By U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA)

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