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Rotary Bucket Excavator Operator fatality
August 22, 2024 at 7:59 AM
Onyx Sterling Pit · Onyx Corporation · Worcester County, MA
Investigator narrative
A miner died when a highwall collapsed on the excavator the miner was operating.
Record details
- Classification
- FALL OF FACE/RIB/PILLAR/SIDE/HIGHWALL
- Accident type
- Caught in, under or between collapsing material or buildings
- Activity at time
- Power Shovel, Dragline
- Subunit / location
- STRIP, QUARY, OPEN PIT
- Source of injury
- CAVING ROCK,COAL,ORE,WSTE
- Nature of injury
- UNCLASSIFIED,NOT DETERMED
- Total mining experience
- 3 years
- Experience at this mine
- 1.83 years
- Experience in this job
- 15 years
- Mine type
- Surface
- Sector
- Metal/Nonmetal
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