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Case study · MSHA Record #219832270175
Front-End Loader fatality
August 5, 1983 at 9:38 AM
Amrize Canon City Quarry
· Sniders' Aggregate Inc
· Fremont County, CO
Investigator narrative
WHILE CHANGING THE POSITION OF THE TIRES ON A STACKING CONVEYOR THE JACK SLIPPED AND THE CONVEYOR TURNED OVER SERIOUSLY INJURING ONE AND RESULTING IN A FATALITY FOR ANOTHER THE CONVEYOR WAS NOT PROPERLY BLOCKED OR CRIBBED
Record details
- Classification
- FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS
- Accident type
- Caught in, under or between NEC
- Activity at time
- Machine Maintenance
- Subunit / location
- STRIP, QUARY, OPEN PIT
- Source of injury
- BELT CONVEYORS
- Nature of injury
- CRUSHING
- Body part affected
- MULTIPLE PARTS (MORE THAN ONE MAJOR)
- Total mining experience
- 30 years
- Experience at this mine
- 0 years
- Experience in this job
- 30 years
- Mine type
- Surface
- Sector
- Metal/Non-Metal
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