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Case study · MSHA Record #219872640001
Warehouseman fatality
September 16, 1987 at 10:10 AM
Golden Sunlight Mines Inc
· Jefferson County, MT
Investigator narrative
EMPLOYEE CRAWLE8 UNDER BEND PULLEY GUARD TO RETRIEVE A HAMMER AND ON H IS WAY OUT HE BECAME ENTANGLED BETWEEN THE CONVEYOR BELT AND PULLEY. HE WAS PULLED THRU AND HE DROPPED 34 FT TO THE LEVEL BELOW. AL5 CRUSHING INJURIES WERE SUSTAINED DURING THE TRIP THRU THE PULLEY
Record details
- Classification
- POWERED HAULAGE
- Accident type
- Caught in, under or between two or more moving objects
- Activity at time
- Conveyor Belt
- Subunit / location
- MILL OPERATION/PREPARATION PLANT
- Source of injury
- BELT CONVEYORS
- Nature of injury
- CRUSHING
- Body part affected
- MULTIPLE PARTS (MORE THAN ONE MAJOR)
- Total mining experience
- 1 year
- Experience at this mine
- 1 year
- Experience in this job
- 1 year
- Mine type
- Surface
- Sector
- Metal/Non-Metal
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