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Case study · MSHA Record #219843420036
Laborer fatality
December 1, 1984 at 2:00 AM
HARLEYVILLE MINE & PLANT
· Gifford-Hill Cement Co Of South Carolina
· Dorchester County, SC
Investigator narrative
EMPL INSTALLING BLW-RAM REFRACTORY.LARGE LUMP OF BUILDUP MATERIAL DISLODGED FROM PREHEATER AND STRCUK SCAFFOLD HE WAS SITTING ON.PRELIM MED REPORT SHOWS INJURED HAS A BROKEN PELVIS,SHOULDER IN JURY,TORN RIGHT LUNG,TORN SPLEENAND RUPTURED ARTERY.
Record details
- Classification
- FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS
- Accident type
- Struck by falling object
- Activity at time
- Machine Maintenance
- Subunit / location
- MILL OPERATION/PREPARATION PLANT
- Source of injury
- SCAFFOLDS,STAGING,ETC
- Nature of injury
- MULTIPLE INJURIES
- Body part affected
- MULTIPLE PARTS (MORE THAN ONE MAJOR)
- Experience at this mine
- 10 years
- Experience in this job
- 10 years
- Mine type
- Facility
- Sector
- Metal/Non-Metal
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