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Case study · MSHA Record #220223180015
Utility Man fatality
November 5, 2022 at 4:10 AM
Knoxville Cement Plant
· CEMEX Construction Materials Atlantic, LLC
· Knox County, TN
Investigator narrative
Employee was operating front end loader in the coal shed. For unknown reasons employee left the loader and was engulfed in the coal pile near the grizzly bars for the feeding system.
Record details
- Classification
- OTHER
- Accident type
- Caught in, under or between collapsing material or buildings
- Activity at time
- Walking, Running
- Subunit / location
- MILL OPERATION/PREPARATION PLANT
- Underground location
- NO VALUE FOUND
- Mining method
- NO VALUE FOUND
- Source of injury
- BROKEN ROCK,COAL,ORE,WSTE
- Nature of injury
- SUFFOC,SMOK INHILAT,DROWN
- Body part affected
- BODY SYSTEMS
- Total mining experience
- 1 year
- Experience at this mine
- 1 year
- Experience in this job
- 0 years
- Mine type
- Facility
- Sector
- Metal/Non-Metal
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