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Case study · MSHA Record #219890320002
Haul/Off Road/Coal/Ore/Pit/Quarry/Rock/Rubber Tire Truck Driver fatality
January 19, 1989 at 11:25 AM
Leona Quarry
· Gallagher & Burk Inc
· Alameda County, CA
Investigator narrative
ASSISTING ANOTHER EMP WHOE WAS INSTALLING RUBBDR LINERS ON ROCK CHUTE AT GROUND LEVEL NEAR BOTTOM OF HILLSIDE WHEN 20 TO 30 TONS OF E ARTH SLID DOWN SIDE OF HILL AND ENGULFED HIM.
Record details
- Classification
- FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS
- Accident type
- Caught in, under or between collapsing material or buildings
- Activity at time
- Machine Maintenance
- Subunit / location
- STRIP, QUARY, OPEN PIT
- Source of injury
- LANDSLIDE (SURF ONLY)
- Nature of injury
- SUFFOC,SMOK INHILAT,DROWN
- Body part affected
- BODY SYSTEMS
- Total mining experience
- 28 years
- Experience at this mine
- 28 years
- Experience in this job
- 28 years
- Mine type
- Surface
- Sector
- Metal/Non-Metal
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