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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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