Fatality · MSHA Record #220073030006

Car Dropper fatality at Granite Mountain Quarry #1 (McGeorge Contracting Company Inc), AR, October 22, 2007

at 1:55 PM

On October 22, 2007, a car dropper was fatally injured in a powered haulage accident at Granite Mountain Quarry #1 (McGeorge Contracting Company Inc), AR.

Granite Mountain Quarry #1 · Surface · Metal/Non-Metal

Operator: McGeorge Contracting Company Inc (Haskell L Dickinson II)

Pulaski County, AR

Classification POWERED HAULAGE

Type Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Investigator narrative

The locomotive was coming back into the plant when EE had crossed over to the old scales side road. He got out of his truck & started to cross the tracks when the locomotive operator saw him. They heard him on the radio say he had broke the 7 car. A coworker asked another coworker if he could see him & when he looked back he saw him on the tracks. He had been hit by the locomotive.

Record details

Activity at time of incident: Walking, Running
Subunit / location: STRIP, QUARY, OPEN PIT
Accident type: Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
Source of injury: STD G RAIL CR,MTR-SURF EQ
Nature of injury: AMPUTATION OR ENUCLEATION
Body part affected: LEG, NEC
Total mining experience: 1 year
Experience at this mine: 1 year
Experience in this job: 1 year
Degree of injury: FATALITY

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