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Case study · MSHA Record #219862930003
Electrician fatality
October 9, 1986 at 9:58 AM
Sunnyside Mine/Mayflower Mill
· Sunnyside Gold Corp
· San Juan County, CO
Investigator narrative
THE VICTIM CLOS9D SWITCH CONTROLLING AIR DOOR AS MUCK TRAIN APPROACHED THE DOOR CLOSED HE ATTEMPTED TO RUN TO AN EMERGENCY SWITCH AND WAS STRUCK BY THE TRAIN IF HE HAD REMAINED WHERE HE WAS AN D OPENED THE MA3N SWITCH HE WOULD HAVE NOT BEEN INJURED
Record details
- Classification
- POWERED HAULAGE
- Accident type
- Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
- Activity at time
- Electrical Maintenance
- Subunit / location
- UNDERGROUND
- Underground location
- INBY PERMANENT SUPPORT
- Source of injury
- NARO G RAIL CR,MTR-UG EQP
- Nature of injury
- CRUSHING
- Body part affected
- MULTIPLE PARTS (MORE THAN ONE MAJOR)
- Total mining experience
- 26 years
- Experience at this mine
- 0 years
- Experience in this job
- 26 years
- Mine type
- Underground
- Sector
- Metal/Non-Metal
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