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Case study · MSHA Record #220181830037
Electrician fatality
June 23, 2018 at 9:20 AM
Big Oak Plant
· Superior Silica Sands LLC
· Bexar County, TX
Investigator narrative
On June 23, 2018 at approximately 9:20 am an employee mounted a pair of slow moving rail cars to apply the brakes. The employee fell and was struck by the pair of freewheeling hopper rail cars. The employee was fatally injured because of the fall and being struck by the moving rail cars.
Record details
- Classification
- NONPOWERED HAULAGE
- Accident type
- Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
- Activity at time
- Spot Rail Cars, Trip Riding
- Subunit / location
- STRIP, QUARY, OPEN PIT
- Underground location
- NO VALUE FOUND
- Mining method
- NO VALUE FOUND
- Source of injury
- STD G RAIL CR,MTR-SURF EQ
- Nature of injury
- MULTIPLE INJURIES
- 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
- Surface
- Sector
- Metal/Non-Metal
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