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Case study · MSHA Record #220132690015
Front-End Loader fatality
September 18, 2013 at 1:08 PM
Caldwell Quarry
· Gaddie-Shamrock LLC
· Clinton County, KY
Investigator narrative
victim entered a hopper without power locked and tagged out and without fall protection
Record details
- Classification
- FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS
- Accident type
- Caught in, under or between collapsing material or buildings
- Activity at time
- Enter/Work In Bins, Silos
- Subunit / location
- STRIP, QUARY, OPEN PIT
- 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
- 16 years
- Experience at this mine
- 14 years
- Experience in this job
- 14 years
- Mine type
- Surface
- Sector
- Metal/Non-Metal
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