Fatality · MSHA Record #220053540007
Miner
December 9, 2005
at 3:45 PM
Sweetwater County, WY
Classification
SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Type
Fall to lower level, (Not Elsewhere Classified)
Investigator narrative
While installing structural steel doors over coal bin EE went around safety rail without using fall protection on the door which was still attached to the crane to try to move the door & close a gap between the doors. The door shifted causing a support I-beam to move shifting the doors which caused him to fall. MSHA was notified 12/27/05 that he had expired from his injuries.
Record details
- Activity at time of incident
- Surface Construction, Nec
- Subunit / location
- SURFACE AT UNDERGROUND
- Underground location
- NO VALUE FOUND
- Mining method
- NO VALUE FOUND
- Accident type
- Fall to lower level, (Not Elsewhere Classified)
- Source of injury
- STORAGE TANKS AND BINS
- Nature of injury
- MULTIPLE INJURIES
- Body part affected
- HEAD,NEC
- Total mining experience
- 0 years
- Experience at this mine
- 0 years
- Experience in this job
- 5 years
- Degree of injury
- FATALITY
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Source: US Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) · Document 220053540007 · Mine ID 4801646
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