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Case study · MSHA Record #220182150018
Outside Foreman fatality
July 31, 2018 at 7:00 AM
C-2
· Susag Sand & Gravel Inc
· Wells County, ND
Investigator narrative
The loader operator was lowering a piece of metal chained to the bucket onto the top of a rock crushing plant. The loader operator did not see that the accident victim was between the loader bucket and the rock crusher frame.
Record details
- Classification
- POWERED HAULAGE
- Accident type
- Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
- Activity at time
- Hang Or Reposition Tubing
- Subunit / location
- STRIP, QUARY, OPEN PIT
- Source of injury
- SURFACE MINING MACHINES
- Nature of injury
- CRUSHING
- Body part affected
- MULTIPLE PARTS (MORE THAN ONE MAJOR)
- Total mining experience
- 40 years
- Experience at this mine
- 40 years
- Experience in this job
- 35 years
- Mine type
- Surface
- Sector
- Metal/Non-Metal
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