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Front-End Loader, Scraper-Loader Operator, Pan Operator, Payloader, Scraper Rig Operator fatality
August 27, 2005 at 12:21 PM
Walstrum Quarry · Albert Frei & Sons Inc · Clear Creek County, CO
Investigator narrative
A FATAL ACCIDENT OCCURED WHEN A MINER ATTEMPTING TO EXCAVATE MATERIAL IN A WA900 FRONT END LOADER WAS STRUCK BY A ROCK THAT ROLLED DOWN THE ANGLE REPOSE.
Record details
- Classification
- FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS
- Accident type
- Struck by... NEC
- Activity at time
- Front-End Loader
- Subunit / location
- STRIP, QUARY, OPEN PIT
- Source of injury
- BROKEN ROCK,COAL,ORE,WSTE
- Nature of injury
- MULTIPLE INJURIES
- Total mining experience
- 5 years
- Experience at this mine
- 4.62 years
- Experience in this job
- 4.62 years
- Mine type
- Surface
- Sector
- Metal/Nonmetal
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