# Asphyxiations, strangulations, suffocations at Sue Trucking
> OSHA SIR `2020109856` · 10/16/2020 · LUBBOCK, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** BODY SYSTEMS
- **Nature of injury:** Asphyxiations, strangulations, suffocations
## Cause
- **Event:** Engulfment in other collapsing material
- **Source:** Field crops
## Employer
- **Name:** Sue Trucking
- **Location:** 11611 CO RD4 2500, LUBBOCK, TEXAS, 79404
- **NAICS:** 484230
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was hauling cotton seed and arrived on-site for a load. When one of the bins would not drop cotton seed, the employee opened the back gate to the trailer and stood on the cotton seed to poke the seed. The cotton seed fell, engulfing the employee. The employee was hospitalized.

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