Fatality · MSHA Record #219890860001
Maintenance Man fatality at Horizon Potash (Amax Potash Corp), NM, March 18, 1989
at 6:45 PM
On March 18, 1989, a maintenance man was fatally injured in an electrical accident at Horizon Potash (Amax Potash Corp), NM.
Operator:
Amax Potash Corp
(Cyprus Amax Minerals Company)
Eddy County, NM
Classification
ELECTRICAL
Type
Contact with electrical current
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Investigator narrative
WORKING ON LEFT SIDE OF CONTINUOUS MINER AND CAME IN CONTACT WITH 460 POWER MODULE AND WAS ELECTROCUTED.
Record details
- Activity at time of incident
- Electrical Maintenance
- Subunit / location
- UNDERGROUND
- Underground location
- INBY PERMANENT SUPPORT
- Accident type
- Contact with electrical current
- Source of injury
- ELECTRICAL APPARATUS,(Not Elsewhere Classified)
- Nature of injury
- ELECT SHOCK,ELECTROCUTION
- Body part affected
- BODY SYSTEMS
- Total mining experience
- 11 years
- Experience at this mine
- 11 years
- Experience in this job
- 0 years
- Degree of injury
- FATALITY
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Source: US Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) · Document 219890860001 · Mine ID 2900174
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