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Case study · MSHA Record #219830380199
Maintenance Man fatality
January 25, 1983 at 9:00 AM
Quincy Plant and Mines
· Floridin Company
· Gadsden County, FL
Investigator narrative
EMPLOYEE WAS LOOKING UNDER THE MAN-LIFT PLATFORM (WHICH WAS NOT RUNNING) SOMEONE AT ANOTHER FLOOR LEVEL TURNED THE MAN-LIFT ON. THUS, EMPLOYEE WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN THE PLATFORM AND THE MAN-LIFT STEP. BROKEN RIBS RIGHT & LEFT SIDE; COLLAPSED RIGHT LUNG, PARTIALLY COLLAPSED LEFT LUNG; CHIPPED 1 VERTEBRE IN BACK: 2 BONES BROKEN IN RIGHT SHOULDER.
Record details
- Classification
- POWERED HAULAGE
- Accident type
- Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
- Activity at time
- Inspect Equipment Or Mine
- Subunit / location
- MILL OPERATION/PREPARATION PLANT
- Source of injury
- HOISTING APPARATUS,NEC
- Nature of injury
- MULTIPLE INJURIES
- Body part affected
- MULTIPLE PARTS (MORE THAN ONE MAJOR)
- Experience at this mine
- 0 years
- Experience in this job
- 0 years
- Mine type
- Facility
- Sector
- Metal/Non-Metal
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