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Case study · MSHA Record #219841280019
Warehouseman fatality
May 1, 1984 at 8:30 AM
FRANKLIN INDUSTRIAL MINERALS
· Franklin Industrial Minerals
· Bell County, TX
Investigator narrative
VICTIM WAS REPLACING BUCKETS ON A BUCKET ELEVATOR WHEN A CO-WORKER STARTED THE ELEVATOR AS NORMAL NOT AWARE THE VICTIM WAS IN IT. HE WAS CAUGHT BE HIND THE HEAD AND PINNED IN THE MATERIAL AT T HE BOTTOM OF THE ELEVATOR. RESCUE EFFORTS TOOK ABOUT 20 MINUTES DURING THIS TIME THERE WAS NO AIR OTHER THAN A SMALL HOLE DUG OUT.
Record details
- Classification
- POWERED HAULAGE
- Accident type
- Caught in, under or between NEC
- Activity at time
- Machine Maintenance
- Subunit / location
- MILL OPERATION/PREPARATION PLANT
- Source of injury
- ELEVATORS,CAGES,SKIPS,ETC
- Nature of injury
- SUFFOC,SMOK INHILAT,DROWN
- Body part affected
- BODY SYSTEMS
- Experience at this mine
- 0 years
- Experience in this job
- 0 years
- Mine type
- Surface
- Sector
- Metal/Non-Metal
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