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Case study · MSHA Record #219883060001
Haul/Off Road/Coal/Ore/Pit/Quarry/Rock/Rubber Tire Truck Driver fatality
October 24, 1988 at 9:45 AM
Portable Crusher #2
· L & W Construction Company
· Appanoose County, IA
Investigator narrative
CAT LOADER WAS CLEANING UP IN PIT CAT TRUCK PULLED BEHIND LOADER LOADER BACKED INTO FRONT END OF TRUCK CRUSHING DRIVER OF TRUCK BETWEEN LOADER AND TRUCK ON LADDER AS HE WAS DESCENDING LADDERWA Y
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
- CRUSHING
- Body part affected
- CHEST (RIBS/BREAST BONE/CHEST ORGNS)
- Total mining experience
- 16 years
- Experience at this mine
- 16 years
- Experience in this job
- 6 years
- Mine type
- Surface
- Sector
- Metal/Non-Metal
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