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Case study · MSHA Record #219842920312
Front-End Loader fatality
October 11, 1984 at 10:45 AM
PORTABLE CRUSHER
· Flintstone Crushing & Construction Company Inc
· Lane County, OR
Investigator narrative
I NAME WAS EMPLOYED AS A LOADER OPERATOR AT OUR CRUSHER PLANT. THE ROLLS HAD DIRT IN THEM I NAME OUR JAW OPERATOR SHUT THE ROLLS TO REVERSE ROTATION WHICH THROWS DIRT OUT HE FOR NO REASON WAS ON TOP OF ROLLS. WHEN THEY WERE REVERSED HE WAS PULLED IN.
Record details
- Classification
- MACHINERY
- Accident type
- Caught in, under or between NEC
- Activity at time
- Getting On Or Off Equipment
- Subunit / location
- STRIP, QUARY, OPEN PIT
- Source of injury
- MACHINE-MILL,CLEANING PLT
- Nature of injury
- CRUSHING
- Body part affected
- BODY PARTS, NEC
- Total mining experience
- 1 year
- Experience at this mine
- 0 years
- Experience in this job
- 0 years
- Mine type
- Surface
- Sector
- Metal/Non-Metal
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