Laborer fatality
Employee was scaling from a man basket on a boom truck when large slabs of rock struck the boom causing it to separate from the boom.
- Classification
- FALL OF FACE/RIB/PILLAR/SIDE/HIGHWALL
- Accident type
- Fall from machine
- Activity at time
- Bar Down, Includes Scaling
- Subunit / location
- UNDERGROUND
- Underground location
- FACE
- Mining method
- Other
- Source of injury
- MINE FLOOR,BOTTOM,FOOTWAL
- Nature of injury
- MULTIPLE INJURIES
- Body part affected
- HEAD, MULTIPLE PARTS
- Total mining experience
- 8 years
- Experience at this mine
- 8 years
- Experience in this job
- 7 years
- Mine type
- Underground
- Sector
- Metal/Non-Metal
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