Muerte de Prep Plant Foreman en GCC Dacotah Inc, SD, 22 de febrero de 2025

A miner received fatal injuries. After a bridge collapsed that the miner was operating a skid steer loader on. The miner was clearing refractory brick form a rotary kiln. The bridge that was installed by the property owner collapsed. The skid steer fell approximately 10 feet into a hopper, causing the payload of brick to engulf the operator causing fatal wounds.

Texto original en inglés de la MSHA

On February 22, 2025, at approximately 2:00 a.m., Angel Gustavo Perez-Perez, a 28-year-old contract miner for Elite Refractory, LLC (Elite), with approximately 17 weeks of mining experience, was fatally injured when the bridge providing access into the kiln shifted, causing the skid steer loader he was operating to fall backward into the cooler chute. The accident occurred because: 1) the mine operator and contractor did not provide safe access to the inside of the kiln, and 2) the mine operator did not properly train miners to assemble and secure the ramp/bridge assembly for kiln access.

1. The mine operator and contractor did not provide safe access to the inside of the kiln.

   Acción correctiva: The mine operator and the contractor developed a new standard operating procedure (SOP) to ensure that the new bridge and ramp assembly will be secured according to manufacturer instructions, and miners were trained on the new SOP.

2. The mine operator did not properly train miners to assemble and secure the ramp/bridge assembly for kiln access.

   Acción correctiva: The mine operator has developed a new task training procedure which includes assembly and securing the new assembly to the burner floor. Miners were trained on the new procedure.

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Hallazgos del informe final de investigación de la MSHA, que sustituye la narrativa preliminar anterior.

Actividad al momento del incidente

Front-End Loader

Subunidad / ubicación

MILL OPERATION/PREPARATION PLANT

Tipo de accidente

Atrapado en, bajo o entre, no clasificado en otra parte

Fuente de la lesión

BRICK,CERAMIC

Naturaleza de la lesión

CRUSHING

Parte del cuerpo afectada

MULTIPLE PARTS (MORE THAN ONE MAJOR)

Experiencia minera total

6 years

Experiencia en esta mina

0 years

Experiencia en este puesto

6 years

Grado de la lesión

FATALITY

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