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Case study · MSHA Record #219830740025
Maintenance Man fatality
March 5, 1983 at 9:05 AM
DETROIT SALT MINE
· Akzo Salt Inc
· Wayne County, MI
Investigator narrative
WHILE UNLOADING A PALLET OF CEMENT BAGS FROM THE WEST SKIP WITH A HI-LOW, WOODEN PALLET BROKE CAUSING CEMENT BAGS TO FALL TOWARDS THE EAST SHAFT. VICTIM WHO WAS BELLING SKIP, MOVED BACKWARDS T O AVOID BEING STRUCK WITH FALLING BAGS OF CEMENT, LOST HIS FOOTING AND FELL APPROX. 35 FT INTO THE EAST SHAFTWAY.
Record details
- Classification
- POWERED HAULAGE
- Accident type
- Fall down raise, shaft or manway
- Activity at time
- Handling Supplies Or Material
- Subunit / location
- UNDERGROUND
- Underground location
- VERTICAL SHAFT
- Mining method
- Other
- Source of injury
- MINE FLOOR,BOTTOM,FOOTWAL
- Nature of injury
- MULTIPLE INJURIES
- Body part affected
- MULTIPLE PARTS (MORE THAN ONE MAJOR)
- Total mining experience
- 38 years
- Experience at this mine
- 38 years
- Experience in this job
- 10 years
- Mine type
- Underground
- Sector
- Metal/Non-Metal
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