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Case study · MSHA Record #220001330001
Truck Driver fatality
May 1, 2000 at 12:00 PM
Lithonia Quarry
· Blue Circle Aggregates Inc
· De Kalb County, GA
Investigator narrative
WAS INSTRUCTED TO HOW OUT OF ANOTHER PIT. THE EE MADE THE TRONSITION WITH NO PROBLEM. ON THE EE'S LAST LOAD BEFORE THE END OF THE SHIFT, FOOT DEEP POOL OF WATER. AFTER EVENING THE WATER THE EE RAISED HIS TRUCK BED & TURNED HIS WINDSHIELD WIPERS ON. THE EE THEN EMPTED TO EXIT FROM VEHCILE ONTO A DIRT ENBANKMENT THAT WAS ABOUT 2 FT AWAY. THE EE DID NOT MAKE IT TO THE ENBANKMENT AND D
Record details
- Classification
- POWERED HAULAGE
- Accident type
- Drowning
- Activity at time
- Haulage Or Dump Truck
- Subunit / location
- STRIP, QUARY, OPEN PIT
- Underground location
- NO VALUE FOUND
- Mining method
- NO VALUE FOUND
- Source of injury
- WATER
- Nature of injury
- SUFFOC,SMOK INHILAT,DROWN
- Body part affected
- BODY SYSTEMS
- 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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