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Case study · MSHA Record #220141700028
Warehouseman fatality
June 14, 2014 at 2:00 PM
Chalk Hills Quarry
· Diamond K Gypsum Inc
· Emery County, UT
Investigator narrative
Employee was shrink wrapping a pallet with a weed burner and for some unknown reason he burned himself and was found by a co-worker in a serious burn condition. He is burned over 36% of his body including left arm, which has been amputated, and his right upper arm, chest and face. The cause of death was mucomuyosis (fungal infection).
Record details
- Classification
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
- Accident type
- Contact with hot objects or substances
- Activity at time
- Welding Or Cutting
- Subunit / location
- STRIP, QUARY, OPEN PIT
- Underground location
- NO VALUE FOUND
- Mining method
- NO VALUE FOUND
- Source of injury
- FLAME,FIRE,SMOKE,NEC
- Nature of injury
- BURN OR SCALD (HEAT)
- Body part affected
- MULTIPLE PARTS (MORE THAN ONE MAJOR)
- Total mining experience
- 6 years
- Experience at this mine
- 0 years
- Experience in this job
- 0 years
- Mine type
- Surface
- Sector
- Metal/Non-Metal
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