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Case study · MSHA Record #219893470002
Front-End Loader fatality
December 4, 1989 at 7:15 AM
Stripping #2
· Schildberg Construction Company Inc
· Adair County, IA
Investigator narrative
HE HAD JUST LOADED UP ON THE CUT AND WAS COMING DOWN THE RAMP TO UN-LOAD.THE OPERATORS WITH SCRAPERS HAD BEEN INSTRUCTED TO LOWER THE SCRAPER PANS WHEN GOING DOWN GRADE.HE DROPPED IT TOO MUCH AND STOPPED THE TRACTOR,HE THEN RAISED THE PAN BUT DID NOT LOWER IT AGAIN.THE WEIGHT OF THE LOAD IN THE SCRAPER CAUSED THE TRACTOR TO JACK-KNIFE AND TO UPSET OFF THE EDGE OF THE RAMP.HE WAS TR
Record details
- Classification
- POWERED HAULAGE
- Accident type
- Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
- Activity at time
- Scraper, Pan Scraper
- Subunit / location
- STRIP, QUARY, OPEN PIT
- Source of injury
- FORKLIFTS,STACKERS,TRCTR
- Nature of injury
- CRUSHING
- Body part affected
- MULTIPLE PARTS (MORE THAN ONE MAJOR)
- 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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