Fatality · MSHA Record #220061790021
Front-End Loader, Scraper-Loader Operator, Pan Operator, Payloader, Scraper Rig Operator
June 12, 2006 at 7:20 AM
Operator: Rockbridge Stone Products Inc (Roy D Simmons Jr)
Rockbridge County, VA
ClassificationFALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS
TypeStruck by falling object
Investigator narrative
Employee was removing hydraulic line on Volvo loader. He had raised the bucket, remove front cover, taken 3 bolts out of line. The line then blew off then the main boom cylinder came down on top of him pinning him between differential and boom causing accident.
Record details
- Activity at time of incident
- Machine Maintenance
- Subunit / location
- STRIP, QUARY, OPEN PIT
- Accident type
- Struck by falling object
- Source of injury
- METAL,(Not Elsewhere Classified)(PIPE,WIRE,NAIL)
- Nature of injury
- CRUSHING
- Total mining experience
- 1.25 years
- Experience at this mine
- 1.25 years
- Experience in this job
- 1.25 years
- Degree of injury
- FATALITY
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Source: US Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) · Document 220061790021 · Mine ID 4400067Trainer view →