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Safety Director fatality
February 28, 2014 at 1:30 PM
East Coast Mines & Materials · Suffolk County, NY
Investigator narrative
A miner become buried from material sliding down the face of a bank.
Record details
- Classification
- FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS
- Accident type
- Struck by rolling or sliding object
- Activity at time
- Inspect Equipment Or Mine
- Subunit / location
- STRIP, QUARY, OPEN PIT
- Source of injury
- LANDSLIDE (SURF ONLY)
- Nature of injury
- SUFFOC,SMOK INHILAT,DROWN
- Total mining experience
- 27.1 years
- Experience at this mine
- 12.23 years
- Experience in this job
- 12.23 years
- Mine type
- Surface
- Sector
- Metal/Nonmetal
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