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Case study · MSHA Record #219881650001
Warehouseman fatality
May 31, 1988 at 9:15 PM
Kingston Plant #3
· Callanan Industries Inc
· Ulster County, NY
Investigator narrative
THERE WERE NO WITNESSES. EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A 980 B FRONEND LOADER AND APPARENTLY FLIPPED INTO THE MUCK POND ON ITS TOP BURYING THE MACHINE AND OPERATOR UNDER THE WATER UP TO MIDWAY OF WH EELS UNDETERMINED WHETHER THE LOST CONTROL OR SIMPLY BACKED IN.
Record details
- Classification
- POWERED HAULAGE
- Accident type
- Drowning
- Activity at time
- Front-End Loader
- Subunit / location
- MILL OPERATION/PREPARATION PLANT
- Source of injury
- WATER
- Nature of injury
- SUFFOC,SMOK INHILAT,DROWN
- Body part affected
- BODY SYSTEMS
- Total mining experience
- 0 years
- Experience at this mine
- 0 years
- Mine type
- Surface
- Sector
- Metal/Non-Metal
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