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Case study · MSHA Record #220201500010
Maintenance Man fatality
May 21, 2020 at 12:30 PM
Bluff City Minerals
· Bluff City Minerals LLC
· Madison County, IL
Investigator narrative
Employee was removing an electrical motor using a chain hoist suspended from a cross brace when the cross brace became unsecured and struck the employee.
Record details
- Classification
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
- Accident type
- Struck by rolling or sliding object
- Activity at time
- Idle
- Subunit / location
- UNDERGROUND
- Underground location
- LAST OPEN CROSSCUT
- Mining method
- Conventional Stoping
- Source of injury
- METAL,NEC(PIPE,WIRE,NAIL)
- Nature of injury
- FRACTURE,CHIP
- Body part affected
- NECK
- Total mining experience
- 27 years
- Experience at this mine
- 19 years
- Experience in this job
- 8 years
- Mine type
- Underground
- Sector
- Metal/Non-Metal
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