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Case study · MSHA Record #219861000127
Fatal mining incident
March 28, 1986 at 4:00 PM
ALTO BONITO GRAVEL PIT
· Alto Bonito Gravel Plant
· Starr County, TX
Investigator narrative
ON THE ABOVE D5TE THE DECEASED IS PRESUMED TO HAVE INJURED HIMSELF FATALLY BY OPERATING A FRONT END LOADER WITHOUT PERMISSION OR ANY KNOWNLEDGE BY PLANT PERSONAL. THE DECEASED WAS FOUND LAYIN G ON THE GROUN8 NEAR THE LOADER & THERE WERE NO WITNESSES TO THE ACTUAL ACCIDENT.
Record details
- Classification
- POWERED HAULAGE
- Accident type
- Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
- Activity at time
- Getting On Or Off Equipment
- Subunit / location
- STRIP, QUARY, OPEN PIT
- Source of injury
- SURFACE MINING MACHINES
- Nature of injury
- MULTIPLE INJURIES
- Body part affected
- CHEST (RIBS/BREAST BONE/CHEST ORGNS)
- Mine type
- Surface
- Sector
- Metal/Non-Metal
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