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Case study · MSHA Record #219830310117
Maintenance Man fatality
January 20, 1983 at 3:50 PM
Louisville Plant Quarry & Mill
· Ash Grove Cement Company
· Cass County, NE
Investigator narrative
WHILE REPAIRING A 50T OFFHIGHWAY TRUCK, WORKING UNDER THE RAISED AND BLOCKED BED, THE BLOCKS KICKED OUT, AND THE BED FELL SUDDENLY AFTER THREE HOURS OF STABILITY, CRUSHING EMPLOYEE INSTANTLY, FRACTURING SKULL AND CAUSING OTHER MULTIPLE FRACTURES.
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
- HGHWY ORE CARIER,LRGE TRK
- Nature of injury
- MULTIPLE INJURIES
- Body part affected
- HEAD,NEC
- Total mining experience
- 30 years
- Experience at this mine
- 30 years
- Experience in this job
- 13 years
- Mine type
- Facility
- Sector
- Metal/Non-Metal
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