Fatality · MSHA Record #220203110003
Warehouseman
October 19, 2020
at 11:30 AM
Classification
MACHINERY
Type
Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
Investigator narrative
Task was to remove screen flare. Employee was loosening bolts, changed work location, dangerously close to excavator, without warning or eye contact with excavator operator. Excavator rotated, bucket of excavator struck employee in the upper chest resulting in death.
Record details
- Activity at time of incident
- Machine Maintenance
- Subunit / location
- STRIP, QUARY, OPEN PIT
- Underground location
- NO VALUE FOUND
- Mining method
- NO VALUE FOUND
- Accident type
- Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
- Source of injury
- SURFACE MINING MACHINES
- Nature of injury
- CRUSHING
- Body part affected
- CHEST (RIBS/BREAST BONE/CHEST ORGNS)
- Total mining experience
- 1 year
- Experience at this mine
- 1 year
- Experience in this job
- 1 year
- Degree of injury
- FATALITY
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Source: US Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) · Document 220203110003 · Mine ID 0504470
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