Fatality · MSHA Record #220161580012

Backhoe Operator fatality at Harmony Mine & Mill (Green Brothers Gravel Company Inc), MS, June 3, 2016

at 11:25 AM

On June 3, 2016, a backhoe operator was fatally injured in an inundation accident at Harmony Mine & Mill (Green Brothers Gravel Company Inc), MS.

Harmony Mine & Mill · Surface · Metal/Non-Metal

Operator: Green Brothers Gravel Company Inc (Heyward C Green)

Copiah County, MS

Classification INUNDATION

Type Caught in, under or between collapsing material or buildings

Investigator narrative

A track hoe was loading a haul unit with gravel to take to wash plant and the dam on a slush pond broke and covered up both the tack hoe and the haul unit with the workers in them.

Record details

Activity at time of incident: Power Shovel, Dragline
Subunit / location: STRIP, QUARY, OPEN PIT
Accident type: Caught in, under or between collapsing material or buildings
Source of injury: BROKEN ROCK,COAL,ORE,WSTE
Nature of injury: SUFFOC,SMOK INHILAT,DROWN
Body part affected: BODY SYSTEMS
Total mining experience: 17 years
Experience at this mine: 6 years
Experience in this job: 6 years
Degree of injury: FATALITY

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