Trainer view
Print or save as PDF from your browser (⌘P / Ctrl+P).
← Standard view
Case study · MSHA Record #220040440002
Laborer fatality
January 29, 2004 at 3:00 PM
Amrize Holly Hill Plant
· Amrize Cement Inc.
· Orangeburg County, SC
Investigator narrative
EE WAS WORKING WITH A CREW UNDERNEATH THE TABLE OF THE RAW MILL. HE LEFT THE WORK AREA AND HAD TRAVELED APPROXIMATELY 100 FEET DOWN AN ADJACENT DUCT WHEN HE FELL INTO A PILE OF FLY ASH INSIDE THE DUCT.
Record details
- Classification
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
- Accident type
- Contact with hot objects or substances
- Activity at time
- Walking, Running
- Subunit / location
- MILL OPERATION/PREPARATION PLANT
- Underground location
- NO VALUE FOUND
- Mining method
- NO VALUE FOUND
- Source of injury
- FLAME,FIRE,SMOKE,NEC
- Nature of injury
- BURN OR SCALD (HEAT)
- Body part affected
- MULTIPLE PARTS (MORE THAN ONE MAJOR)
- Total mining experience
- 0 years
- Experience at this mine
- 0 years
- Experience in this job
- 0 years
- Mine type
- Facility
- Sector
- Metal/Non-Metal
Similar incidents in MSHA records
· same classification: SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
-
April 30, 2026 · Seubert Excavators Inc · OR · Laborer
The employee was tasked with helping fill water tank. EE was found about 30 minutes later laying face down saying EE was hurt and needed help. At this point it appears that the weight of the trailer shifted off the cribbing under the landing gears and caused the trailer to overturn, either striking against or rolling…
-
March 28, 2026 · Alpine Silica, LLC · TX · Steel Worker
Employee unhooked lanyard and fell through roof resulting in fatal injuries.
-
October 16, 2025 · MLC · MO · Laborer
Employee was performing cleaning and maintenance. They began work around 7 pm and was discovered by coworkers on the ground below the area of work. It is believed they fell.