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Case study · MSHA Record #220042190023
Laborer fatality
July 24, 2004 at 8:30 PM
Amrize Stringtown Quarry
· Stringtown Materials LP
· Atoka County, OK
Investigator narrative
While cleaning material buildup from underneath field conveyor using a Bobcat loader, the employee climbed out of the vehicle to inspect a pin which had worked loose on the boom arm. After climbing back into the Bobcat, the employee bypassed the safety devices and operated the equipment standing up and became pinned between the boom crossmember and the roof of the cab.
Record details
- Classification
- POWERED HAULAGE
- Accident type
- Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
- Activity at time
- Front-End Loader
- Subunit / location
- MILL OPERATION/PREPARATION PLANT
- Underground location
- NO VALUE FOUND
- Mining method
- NO VALUE FOUND
- Source of injury
- SURFACE MINING MACHINES
- Nature of injury
- OTHER INJURY,NEC
- Body part affected
- CHEST (RIBS/BREAST BONE/CHEST ORGNS)
- Total mining experience
- 0 years
- Experience at this mine
- 0 years
- Experience in this job
- 0 years
- Mine type
- Surface
- Sector
- Metal/Non-Metal
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