Fatality · MSHA Record #220121520001

Outside Foreman, Leadman

Name: Outside Foreman, Leadman fatality at Broken Bow Sand & Gravel
Start: 2012-05-23
Location: Broken Bow Sand & Gravel

May 23, 2012 at 12:21 PM

Broken Bow Sand & Gravel · Surface · Metal/Nonmetal

Operator: Meridian Aggregates Company, A Limited Partnership (Martin Marietta Materials Inc)

Mccurtain County, OK

ClassificationMACHINERY

TypeDrowning

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.

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
Total mining experience: 9.9 years
Experience at this mine: 9.9 years
Experience in this job: 0.9 years
Degree of injury: FATALITY

Source: US Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) · Document 220121520001 · Mine ID 3400460Trainer view →