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Case study · MSHA Record #219840190012
Welder (Shop) fatality
January 11, 1984 at 9:20 AM
Piedmont Quarry
· Quality Rock Company
· Greenwood County, KS
Investigator narrative
CHESTER AN INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR WELDER WAS CONTRACTED TO REPAIR THE PAN OF CAT 633 MOTOR SCRAPER THE PAN WAS BENT AND NEEDED TO BE STRAIGHTENED CHESTER HAD CUT THE GUSSETS FROM UNDER THE PAN AND HAD PLACED ANGLE IRON ON THE PAN AND WEDGED IT AGAINST THE GOOSE NECK INAN ATTEMPT TO STRAIGHTEN THE PAN HE STARTED THIS PROCEDURE ON ONE SIDE OF THE PAN AND HAD MOVED THE ANGLE IRON TO T
Record details
- Classification
- POWERED HAULAGE
- Accident type
- Struck by flying object
- Activity at time
- Machine Maintenance
- Subunit / location
- STRIP, QUARY, OPEN PIT
- Source of injury
- METAL,NEC(PIPE,WIRE,NAIL)
- Nature of injury
- UNCLASSIFIED,NOT DETERMED
- Body part affected
- HEAD,NEC
- Experience in this job
- 40 years
- Mine type
- Surface
- Sector
- Metal/Non-Metal
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