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Case study · MSHA Record #219870630001
Outside Foreman fatality
January 27, 1987 at 9:50 AM
Guion Plant
· Silica Products Company Inc
· Izard County, AR
Investigator narrative
TEARING DOWN CO3CRETE SILO, CUT TOO MANY STEEL BANDS FROM SILO. CONCRETE BLOCKS AND SAND BURIED HIM.
Record details
- Classification
- FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS
- Accident type
- Struck by falling object
- Activity at time
- Surface Construction, Nec
- Subunit / location
- SURFACE AT UNDERGROUND
- Source of injury
- SAND,GRAVEL,SHELL
- Nature of injury
- SUFFOC,SMOK INHILAT,DROWN
- Body part affected
- BODY SYSTEMS
- Experience in this job
- 10 years
- Mine type
- Underground
- Sector
- Metal/Non-Metal
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