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Case study · MSHA Record #219871800259
Crane Operator fatality
June 23, 1987 at 2:00 PM
Skippers
· Trego Stone Corp
· Greensville County, VA
Investigator narrative
CLEANING OUT DI7CH USING CRANE DRAGLINE WITH CLAM SHELL.CRANE APPEARED TO MOVE FORWARD GOING OVER EDGE OF BANK AND OVERTURNED.I.NAME JUMPED OUT OF CRANE AND WAS BURIED UNDER DIRT,ROCK & SAND F ROM HEAD TO WAI8T.MASSIVE HEAD INJURIES,FATALITY.
Record details
- Classification
- MACHINERY
- Accident type
- Caught in, under or between collapsing material or buildings
- Activity at time
- Power Shovel, Dragline
- Subunit / location
- STRIP, QUARY, OPEN PIT
- Source of injury
- BROKEN ROCK,COAL,ORE,WSTE
- Nature of injury
- MULTIPLE INJURIES
- Body part affected
- HEAD,NEC
- Total mining experience
- 46 years
- Experience at this mine
- 46 years
- Experience in this job
- 46 years
- Mine type
- Surface
- Sector
- Metal/Non-Metal
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