Mine Manager, Mine Foreman, Mine Owner fatality

August 4, 2022 at 3:45 PM

Wooten Sand & Gravel, Inc. · Miller County, AR

Investigator narrative

Employee was servicing a dozer alone with the machine running & it was somehow put in gear & started moving. Before the employee could get out of the way the machine trapped employee's foot & started pulling employee in between the track & the cab, which led to employee being run over by the machine. This is our best guess as there were no actual witnesses to the event.

Record details

Classification: MACHINERY
Accident type: Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
Activity at time: Machine Maintenance
Subunit / location: STRIP, QUARY, OPEN PIT
Source of injury: SURFACE MINING MACHINES
Nature of injury: CRUSHING
Total mining experience: 14.17 years
Experience at this mine: 14.17 years
Experience in this job: 14.17 years
Mine type: Surface
Sector: Metal/Nonmetal

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