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Case study · MSHA Record #220061790021

Front-End Loader fatality

June 12, 2006 at 7:20 AM
01 MINE · Rockbridge Stone Products Inc · Rockbridge County, VA
Investigator narrative
Employee was removing hydraulic line on Volvo loader. He had raised the bucket, remove front cover, taken 3 bolts out of line. The line then blew off then the main boom cylinder came down on top of him pinning him between differential and boom causing accident.
Record details
Classification
FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS
Accident type
Struck by falling object
Activity at time
Machine Maintenance
Subunit / location
STRIP, QUARY, OPEN PIT
Underground location
NO VALUE FOUND
Mining method
NO VALUE FOUND
Source of injury
METAL,NEC(PIPE,WIRE,NAIL)
Nature of injury
CRUSHING
Body part affected
HEAD,NEC
Total mining experience
1 year
Experience at this mine
1 year
Experience in this job
1 year
Mine type
Surface
Sector
Metal/Non-Metal
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