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Case study · MSHA Record #219892120001
Mine Manager fatality
May 24, 1989 at 12:15 PM
CAPRICE QUARRY
· Peppers Granite Company Inc
· Oglethorpe County, GA
Investigator narrative
I.NAME HAD WALKED BEHIND HIS TRUCK TO LOOK AT A BLOCK OF GRANITE. THE TRUCK WAS PARKED ON AN INCLINE WHERE IT JUMPED OUT OF GEAR AND ROLLED BACK TRAPPING I.NAME BETWEEN THE GRANITE AND THE TRU CK AND RESULTING IN HIS DEATH.
Record details
- Classification
- POWERED HAULAGE
- Accident type
- Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
- Activity at time
- Walking, Running
- Subunit / location
- STRIP, QUARY, OPEN PIT
- Source of injury
- PASS CARS,PICKUP TRUCKS
- Nature of injury
- MULTIPLE INJURIES
- Body part affected
- MULTIPLE PARTS (MORE THAN ONE MAJOR)
- Total mining experience
- 40 years
- Experience at this mine
- 15 years
- Experience in this job
- 40 years
- Mine type
- Surface
- Sector
- Metal/Non-Metal
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