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Case study · MSHA Record #219891790001
Haul/Off Road/Coal/Ore/Pit/Quarry/Rock/Rubber Tire Truck Driver fatality
June 15, 1989 at 10:00 AM
Beco Pit
· Beco Rock & Sand Corp
· Miami-Dade County, FL
Investigator narrative
TRUCK DRIVER WAS HAULING MATERIAL FROM THE PIT STOCKPILE TO THE PLANT WHEN APPARENTLY HE BECAME UNCONCIOUS DUE TO AN ADVANCED CARDIOVASCULAR CONDITION, LOST CONTROL OF THE TRUCK AND DROVE INT O THE WATER FILLED PIT (LAKE) AND DROWNED.
Record details
- Classification
- OTHER
- Accident type
- Drowning
- Activity at time
- Haulage Or Dump Truck
- Subunit / location
- STRIP, QUARY, OPEN PIT
- 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
- Experience in this job
- 0 years
- Mine type
- Surface
- Sector
- Metal/Non-Metal
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