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Case study · MSHA Record #220001720001
Stone Finishing And Sizing Personnel fatality
June 11, 2000 at 11:15 PM
Mt Airy Mine And Mill
· The N. C. Granite Corp
· Surry County, NC
Investigator narrative
THE OPERATOR WAS ATTEMPTING TO PLACE A WEDGE BETWEEN THE TWO BLOCKS THAT HAD BEEN SAWN, A ROUGH BACK FELL PINNING THE OPERATOR AGAINST THE OTHER BLOCK.
Record details
- Classification
- MACHINERY
- Accident type
- Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
- Activity at time
- Hand Tools (Not Powered)
- Subunit / location
- MILL OPERATION/PREPARATION PLANT
- Source of injury
- BROKEN ROCK,COAL,ORE,WSTE
- Nature of injury
- CRUSHING
- Body part affected
- CHEST (RIBS/BREAST BONE/CHEST ORGNS)
- Total mining experience
- 14 years
- Experience at this mine
- 14 years
- Experience in this job
- 10 years
- Mine type
- Surface
- Sector
- Metal/Non-Metal
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