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Case study · MSHA Record #220023050001
Front-End Loader fatality
October 17, 2002 at 8:15 AM
Portable Wash Plant
· Ellensburg Cement Products Inc
· Kittitas County, WA
Investigator narrative
EE WENT UP TO TOP OF CONVEYOR TO ATTACH CHAINS TO MOVE CONVEYOR. CO-WORKER MANUVERED BORROWED EXCAVATOR - WHEN HE HIT SWITCH TO LOCK OUT MACHINE THE BOOM CAME DOWN PINNING EE BETWEEN BUCKET AN D FRAME OF CONVEYOR.
Record details
- Classification
- MACHINERY
- Accident type
- Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
- Activity at time
- Move Non-Self-Propelled Equip
- Subunit / location
- STRIP, QUARY, OPEN PIT
- Source of injury
- SURFACE MINING MACHINES
- Nature of injury
- MULTIPLE INJURIES
- Body part affected
- CHEST (RIBS/BREAST BONE/CHEST ORGNS)
- Total mining experience
- 11 years
- Experience at this mine
- 11 years
- Experience in this job
- 10 years
- Mine type
- Surface
- Sector
- Metal/Non-Metal
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