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Case study · MSHA Record #219842400213
Front-End Loader fatality
August 14, 1984 at 6:10 PM
Texas-Lehigh Cement Plant & Quarry
· Texas Cement Company
· Hays County, TX
Investigator narrative
EMPL JACKHAMMERING REFRACTORY BRICK FROM INTERIOR OF KILN WHEN BRICK SLID DOWN RELEASING BRICK FROM CEILING-FALL OF MATERIAL.
Record details
- Classification
- FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS
- Accident type
- Caught in, under or between collapsing material or buildings
- Activity at time
- Surface Equipment, Nec
- Subunit / location
- MILL OPERATION/PREPARATION PLANT
- Source of injury
- BRICK,CERAMIC
- Nature of injury
- MULTIPLE INJURIES
- Body part affected
- MULTIPLE PARTS (MORE THAN ONE MAJOR)
- Total mining experience
- 6 years
- Experience at this mine
- 6 years
- Experience in this job
- 6 years
- Mine type
- Facility
- Sector
- Metal/Non-Metal
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