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Case study · MSHA Record #219870820002
Maintenance Man fatality
March 7, 1987 at
Ehrenberg
· Rip-Rap Inc
· La Paz County, AZ
Investigator narrative
SERVICE TRUCK W5S PARKED WITHOUT SETTING THE EMERGENCY BRAKE THE TRUCK WAS NOT LEFT IN GEAR, AND WHEEL CHOCKS WERE NOT USED. NONE OF THESE PRECAUTIONS WERE TAKEN ALLOWING THE TRUCK TO ROLL BA CKWARD PUSHING 9MPLOYEE INTO THE SCREEN PLANT
Record details
- Classification
- POWERED HAULAGE
- Accident type
- Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
- Activity at time
- Walking, Running
- Subunit / location
- STRIP, QUARY, OPEN PIT
- Source of injury
- PASS CARS,PICKUP TRUCKS
- Nature of injury
- MULTIPLE INJURIES
- Body part affected
- HEAD,NEC
- Experience at this mine
- 0 years
- Mine type
- Surface
- Sector
- Metal/Non-Metal
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