Fatality · MSHA Record #220131000026
Outside Foreman
April 4, 2013
at 2:47 PM
Operator:
Freeport-McMoRan Bagdad Inc
(Freeport-McMoRan Inc)
Yavapai County, AZ
Classification
FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS
Type
Struck by falling object
Investigator narrative
The crew was attempting to align a section of pipe, which is 40 feet long, when the 2 pipes disconnected and 1 end of the pipe that the crew was trying to install slipped out of the joint and struck the employee. An excavator was being used to position a 36" pipe diameter by 40' long section pipe to connect it to another section of pipe.
Record details
- Activity at time of incident
- Machine Maintenance
- Subunit / location
- MILL OPERATION/PREPARATION PLANT
- Underground location
- NO VALUE FOUND
- Mining method
- NO VALUE FOUND
- Accident type
- Struck by falling object
- Source of injury
- RBR,GLS,PLSTC,FIBRGLS,FAB
- Nature of injury
- MULTIPLE INJURIES
- Body part affected
- HEAD,NEC
- Total mining experience
- 6 years
- Experience at this mine
- 3 years
- Experience in this job
- 0 years
- Degree of injury
- FATALITY
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Source: US Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) · Document 220131000026 · Mine ID 0200137
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