Haul/Off Road/Coal/Ore/Pit/Quarry/Rock/Rubber Tire Truck Driver
Miner left haul truck running without setting the parking brake and/or chocking the wheels. The haul truck rolled forward and pinned the miner between the haul truck and miner's personal vehicle. Miner did not survive miner's injury.
On April 19, 2021, David Garcia Jr., a 28 year-old haul truck operator with approximately ten months of experience, died when his haul truck, parked on a grade, rolled, pinning him against his personal pickup truck. The fatality occurred because the mine operator: 1) did not assure that miners followed proper parking procedures for unattended mobile equipment, including applying the parking brake or using chocks when parked on a grade, and did not provide chocks to mobile equipment operators for use when parking on a grade; and 2) did not provide task training to Garcia Jr. to operate the John Deere 250D.
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The mine operator did not assure that miners followed proper parking procedures for unattended mobile equipment, including applying the parking brake or using chocks when parked on a grade, and did not provide chocks to mobile equipment operators for use when parking on a grade.
Corrective action: The mine operator provided a set of chocks for every piece of mobile equipment and trained all miners on proper parking procedures for unattended mobile equipment. Additionally, the mine operator created designated parking areas for personal vehicles separate from mine mobile equipment.
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The mine operator did not provide task training to Garcia Jr. to operate the John Deere 250D.
Corrective action: The mine operator conducted task training for mobile equipment with all of their miners.
Findings from MSHA's final investigation report, which supersedes the preliminary narrative above.
- Activity at time of incident
- Idle
- Subunit / location
- STRIP, QUARY, OPEN PIT
- Accident type
- Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
- Source of injury
- HGHWY ORE CARIER,LRGE TRK
- Nature of injury
- CRUSHING
- Body part affected
- CHEST (RIBS/BREAST BONE/CHEST ORGNS)
- Total mining experience
- 0 years
- Experience at this mine
- 0 years
- Experience in this job
- 0 years
- Degree of injury
- FATALITY
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