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Case study · MSHA Record #220212280001
Outside Foreman fatality
July 28, 2021 at 10:05 AM
Boyd
· Echols Mill Quarries LLC
· Elbert County, GA
Investigator narrative
EE is believed to have been either chipping away several inches of top layer of brownish colored granite or drilling a chain hole through the granite near end of the block on the open face so block could be lifted using a chain. Granite block being worked on was approx. 5'x12'x30'. Additional submitted details on file.
Record details
- Classification
- FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS
- Accident type
- Fall to lower level, NEC
- Activity at time
- Hand Tools (Powered)
- Subunit / location
- STRIP, QUARY, OPEN PIT
- Underground location
- NO VALUE FOUND
- Mining method
- NO VALUE FOUND
- Source of injury
- GROUND
- Nature of injury
- UNCLASSIFIED,NOT DETERMED
- Body part affected
- HEAD,NEC
- Total mining experience
- 18 years
- Experience at this mine
- 1 year
- Experience in this job
- 1 year
- Mine type
- Surface
- Sector
- Metal/Non-Metal
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