Front-End Loader, Scraper-Loader Operator, Pan Operator, Payloader, Scraper Rig Operator fatality

June 12, 2006 at 7:20 AM

01 MINE · Rockbridge Stone Products Inc · Rockbridge County, VA

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

Classification: FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS
Accident type: Struck by falling object
Activity at time: Machine Maintenance
Subunit / location: STRIP, QUARY, OPEN PIT
Source of injury: METAL,NEC(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
Mine type: Surface
Sector: Metal/Nonmetal

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