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Crane Operator, Mobile Equipment Operator (Meo), Dragline Operator, Dropball Operator, Rigger fatality
June 13, 2020 at 10:30 AM
Buckeye Plant · Salt River Sand & Rock · Maricopa County, AZ
Investigator narrative
Operator error. Failed to set crane up in digging mode. Employee did not set the travel locks prior to digging.
Record details
- Classification
- MACHINERY
- Accident type
- Drowning
- Activity at time
- Power Shovel, Dragline
- Subunit / location
- STRIP, QUARY, OPEN PIT
- Source of injury
- WATER
- Nature of injury
- SUFFOC,SMOK INHILAT,DROWN
- Total mining experience
- 3 years
- Experience at this mine
- 1 year
- Experience in this job
- 2 years
- Mine type
- Surface
- Sector
- Metal/Nonmetal
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