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Case study · MSHA Record #219851840001
Haul/Off Road/Coal/Ore/Pit/Quarry/Rock/Rubber Tire Truck Driver fatality
June 22, 1985 at 12:35 PM
Tehachapi Quarry
· Monolith Portland Cement Company
· Kern County, CA
Investigator narrative
THE EE WAS DRIVING A CAT DJB OFF HIGHWAY TRUCK LOADED WITH APPROX 40 TONS OF SILICA MATERIAL. THE TRUCK DRIFTED ONTO THE LEFT BERM CONTINUED ONTO THE ROAD & OFF THE RT SHOULDER INTO A FIELD A PPROX 1500\. THE EE WAS FOUND UNCONSCIOUS BESIDE THE TRUCKS COMPARTMENT ONT EH VEHICLE RT SIDE & TRANSPORTED BY AMBULANCE TO TEHACHAPI HOSPITAL.
Record details
- Classification
- POWERED HAULAGE
- Accident type
- Struck against a moving object
- Activity at time
- Haulage Or Dump Truck
- Subunit / location
- STRIP, QUARY, OPEN PIT
- Source of injury
- HGHWY ORE CARIER,LRGE TRK
- Nature of injury
- MULTIPLE INJURIES
- Body part affected
- HEAD,NEC
- Total mining experience
- 28 years
- Experience at this mine
- 28 years
- Experience in this job
- 6 years
- Mine type
- Surface
- Sector
- Metal/Non-Metal
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