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Case study · MSHA Record #220062060012
Haul/Off Road/Coal/Ore/Pit/Quarry/Rock/Rubber Tire Truck Driver fatality
July 15, 2006 at 7:45 AM
Terrassa Sand & Gravel #1
· Terrassa Sand & Gravel, Inc.
· Bayamon County, PR
Investigator narrative
Extrayendo material en el lado noreste de la charca de extraccion el chofer, no sabemos la razon, hizo un viraje en el lado noroeste de la charca y cayo a la misma con su camion. El chofer fallecio.The victim's truck was loaded with his first load of the shift. He was backing his haul truck out of the extraction area(pit) when truck traveled across a field into a water filled pit.
Record details
- Classification
- POWERED HAULAGE
- Accident type
- Drowning
- Activity at time
- Haulage Or Dump Truck
- Subunit / location
- STRIP, QUARY, OPEN PIT
- Underground location
- NO VALUE FOUND
- Mining method
- NO VALUE FOUND
- Source of injury
- WATER
- Nature of injury
- SUFFOC,SMOK INHILAT,DROWN
- Body part affected
- BODY SYSTEMS
- Total mining experience
- 33 years
- Experience at this mine
- 33 years
- Experience in this job
- 33 years
- Mine type
- Surface
- Sector
- Metal/Non-Metal
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