1M.B.B.S., M.D. (Specialist) Department of Forensic Medicine, Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital, Hari Nagar, New Delhi-110064, India
2M.B.B.S., M.D., D.H.M. (Assistant Professor) Department of Forensic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Shree Guru Gobind Singh Tricentenary University, Chandu Budhera, Gurugram, Haryana, India
3M.B.B.S., M.D. (Associate Professor) Department of Forensic Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
*Corresponding Author: Dr Mohit Chauhan, M.B.B.S., M.D., D.H.M., Assistant Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Shree Guru Gobind Singh Tricentenary University, Chandu Budhera, Gurugram, Haryana, India Email: maahi474@gmail.com
Online published on 4 December, 2018.
Choking and traumatic asphyxiation as sub types of asphyxia causing fatality in two workers is presented. Different varieties of pulse grains were implicated in separate events of entrapment and engulfment in confined food pulse processing agricultural settings. Authors claim this as first case series describing pulse grain processing related occupational deaths. Death circumstances and autopsy findings are discussed along with review of literature.
Confined space fatalities, grain/pulse silos, entrapment/engulfment, asphyxia
