Front-End Loader

April 13, 2024 at 10:20 AM

Morgan County Quarry · Surface · Metal/Non-Metal

Operator: Martin Marietta Materials, Inc. (Martin Marietta Materials Inc)

Morgan County, GA

Classification OTHER

Type Drowning

Investigator narrative

Based on investigation to date, employee suffered a personal medical event (cardiac arrest). "Per Prelim: After washing a concrete pad, a miner drowned in a two-foot-deep pool of water."

Final MSHA investigation

On April 13, 2024, at approximately 10:20 a.m., Melvin Hobgood, a 63 year-old front-end loader operator with over four years of mining experience, was found in a pool of water next to the area he had been working. The autopsy report states that Hobgood died due to drowning.

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Findings from MSHA's final investigation report, which supersedes the preliminary narrative above.

Record details

Activity at time of incident: Handling Supplies Or Material
Subunit / location: STRIP, QUARY, OPEN PIT
Accident type: Drowning
Source of injury: WATER
Nature of injury: SUFFOC,SMOK INHILAT,DROWN
Body part affected: BODY SYSTEMS
Total mining experience: 4 years
Experience at this mine: 4 years
Experience in this job: 4 years
Degree of injury: FATALITY

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Accident record: Download MSHA Accidents.zip then search for Document number 220241170027 (the unique key per MSHA Form 7000-1)
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Source: US Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) · Document 220241170027 · Mine ID 0901126 Trainer view →