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Case study · MSHA Record #220090900044
Front-End Loader fatality
March 19, 2009 at 10:00 AM
Ivanhoe Concentrator
· Freeport-McMoRan Chino Mines Company
· Grant County, NM
Investigator narrative
Employee got out of cab and stepped toward window & knee gave out. Employee did not slip or trip, footing was good, maintained 3 point contact, from a flat surface, but as employee shifted his weight his knee gave out.
Record details
- Classification
- OTHER
- Accident type
- Bodily reaction, NEC
- Activity at time
- Walking, Running
- Subunit / location
- MILL OPERATION/PREPARATION PLANT
- Underground location
- NO VALUE FOUND
- Mining method
- NO VALUE FOUND
- Source of injury
- BODILY MOTION
- Nature of injury
- SPRAIN,STRAIN RUPT DISC
- Body part affected
- KNEE/PATELLA
- Total mining experience
- 32 years
- Experience at this mine
- 17 years
- Experience in this job
- 4 years
- Mine type
- Facility
- Sector
- Metal/Non-Metal
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