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Case study · MSHA Record #219840300182
Barge/Boat/Dredge/Towbarge/Towboat/Leach Operator fatality
November 9, 1983 at 4:15 PM
Willamette Falls Plant
· Western-Pacific Construction Materials Company
· Clackamas County, OR
Investigator narrative
BILL GREENE LOST HIS BALANCE AS THE TWO BARGES BUMPED TOGETHER AND WAS ENOUGH TO DUMP HIM OFF IN THE RIVER THIS BUMPING OF THE DREDGE D B SKOOKIM AND A MATERIAL BARGE WAS WHEN THE CREW WAS CHANGING THE BARGES
Record details
- Classification
- POWERED HAULAGE
- Accident type
- Fall from machine
- Activity at time
- Handling Supplies Or Material
- Subunit / location
- DREDGE
- Source of injury
- WATER
- Nature of injury
- SUFFOC,SMOK INHILAT,DROWN
- Body part affected
- BODY SYSTEMS
- Total mining experience
- 30 years
- Experience at this mine
- 30 years
- Experience in this job
- 8 years
- Mine type
- Surface
- Sector
- Metal/Non-Metal
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