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Case study · MSHA Record #220191350001
Outside Foreman fatality
May 13, 2019 at 11:30 AM
MILLSTONE QUARRY
· Greene County Quarries, Inc.
· Oglethorpe County, GA
Investigator narrative
Crane fell over into quarry with operator inside cab. The victim was operating crane lifting an approximately 15 ton block of granite from the pit. The boom of the crane lowered causing the crane to tip over and fall 85 feet into the pit.
Record details
- Classification
- MACHINERY
- Accident type
- Struck against a moving object
- Activity at time
- Surface Equipment, Nec
- Subunit / location
- STRIP, QUARY, OPEN PIT
- Underground location
- NO VALUE FOUND
- Mining method
- NO VALUE FOUND
- Source of injury
- CRANES,DERRICKS
- Nature of injury
- CRUSHING
- Body part affected
- MULTIPLE PARTS (MORE THAN ONE MAJOR)
- Total mining experience
- 40 years
- Experience at this mine
- 26 years
- Mine type
- Surface
- Sector
- Metal/Non-Metal
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