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Case study · MSHA Record #219892830423
Outside Foreman fatality
September 29, 1989 at 1:50 AM
Romeo Quarry
· Hanson Material Service
· Will County, IL
Investigator narrative
DECEASED & COWORKER WERE IN THE PROCESS OF SEARCHING FOR USABLE SPARE PARTS IN AN ABANDONED BLDG WHEN AN APPARENT FLASH FIRE FROM AN ELECTRICAL BOX OCCURRED ENGULFING THE DECEASED CO-WORKER WA S INJURED ATTEMPTING TO EXTINGUISH THE CLOTHS ONFIRE OF THE DECEASED
Record details
- Classification
- ELECTRICAL
- Accident type
- Contact with hot objects or substances
- Activity at time
- Handling Supplies Or Material
- Subunit / location
- STRIP, QUARY, OPEN PIT
- Source of injury
- FLAME,FIRE,SMOKE,NEC
- Nature of injury
- BURN OR SCALD (HEAT)
- Body part affected
- MULTIPLE PARTS (MORE THAN ONE MAJOR)
- Mine type
- Surface
- Sector
- Metal/Non-Metal
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