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Case study · MSHA Record #220233530005
Miner fatality
December 14, 2023 at 2:30 PM
Beck Street
· Staker & Parson Companies
· Salt Lake County, UT
Investigator narrative
EE STARTED THE DAY AND HAD WORKED AT THE SHOP LOCATED IN LEHI, UTAH FOR THE MAJORITY OF EE'S WHOLE SHIFT. THERE WERE MATERIALS THAT NEEDED TO BE TAKEN TO OUR CREW TO CONTINUE WORKING. EE DROVE TO THE WORKSITE. WHILE EE WAS THERE, EE WAS WALKING AND WHILE WALKING EE WAS STRUCK BY THE FORKS OF A PEICE OF EQUIPMENT THAT FELL OVER, WHICH RESULTED IN EE'S LIFE ENDING.
Record details
- Classification
- MACHINERY
- Accident type
- Struck by falling object
- Activity at time
- Walking, Running
- Subunit / location
- STRIP, QUARY, OPEN PIT
- Underground location
- NO VALUE FOUND
- Mining method
- NO VALUE FOUND
- Source of injury
- FORKLIFTS,STACKERS,TRCTR
- Nature of injury
- MULTIPLE INJURIES
- Body part affected
- HEAD,NEC
- Experience in this job
- 0 years
- Mine type
- Surface
- Sector
- Metal/Non-Metal
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