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Backhoe Operator, Trackhoe Operator fatality
June 3, 2016 at 11:25 AM
Harmony Mine & Mill · Green Brothers Gravel Company Inc · Copiah County, MS
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
- Classification
- INUNDATION
- Accident type
- Caught in, under or between collapsing material or buildings
- Activity at time
- Power Shovel, Dragline
- Subunit / location
- STRIP, QUARY, OPEN PIT
- Source of injury
- BROKEN ROCK,COAL,ORE,WSTE
- Nature of injury
- SUFFOC,SMOK INHILAT,DROWN
- Total mining experience
- 17 years
- Experience at this mine
- 6.9 years
- Experience in this job
- 6.9 years
- Mine type
- Surface
- Sector
- Metal/Nonmetal
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