Fatality · MSHA Record #220121520001
Outside Foreman
May 23, 2012
at 12:21 PM
Mccurtain County, OK
Classification
MACHINERY
Type
Drowning
Investigator narrative
Employee was operating an excavator between two small ponds when the ground beneath the excavator tracks failed and the excavator toppled into one of the ponds.
Final MSHA investigation
On May 23, 2012, John P. Scott, Foreman, age 36, was killed when the excavator he was operating overturned on a dike between two ponds. The ground beneath the excavator tracks failed and the excavator toppled into one of the ponds. The accident occurred due to management's failure to maintain safe access to the area where the victim intended to operate the excavator. Water had eroded the sandy soil dike on which the excavator operated causing the dike to fail under the weight of the excavator.
Findings from MSHA's final investigation report, which supersedes the preliminary narrative above.
Record details
- Activity at time of incident
- Power Shovel, Dragline
- 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
- 9 years
- Experience at this mine
- 9 years
- Experience in this job
- 0 years
- Degree of injury
- FATALITY
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Source: US Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) · Document 220121520001 · Mine ID 3400460
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