Fatality · MSHA Record #220241170027
Front-End Loader fatality at Morgan County Quarry (Martin Marietta Materials, Inc.), GA, April 13, 2024
at 10:20 AM
On April 13, 2024, a front-end loader was fatally injured at Morgan County Quarry (Martin Marietta Materials, Inc.), GA.
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.
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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Source: US Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) · Document 220241170027 · Mine ID 0901126
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