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Case study · MSHA Record #219892720053
Warehouseman fatality
September 16, 1989 at 8:30 AM
Amrize Theodore Plant
· Holnam Inc
· Mobile County, AL
Investigator narrative
HOT MATERIAL BROKE LOOSE & RAN OVER STAIRWELL WHERE EMPLOYEE WAS EXITING EMPLOYEE HAD BEEN ASSISTING IN GATHERING EQUIPMENT & WAS STANDING BY BURNS TO AT LEAST 50 % OF BODY
Record details
- Classification
- MACHINERY
- Accident type
- Contact with hot objects or substances
- Activity at time
- Idle
- Subunit / location
- MILL OPERATION/PREPARATION PLANT
- Source of injury
- PULVERIZED MINERAL (DUST)
- Nature of injury
- BURN OR SCALD (HEAT)
- Body part affected
- MULTIPLE PARTS (MORE THAN ONE MAJOR)
- Mine type
- Facility
- Sector
- Metal/Non-Metal
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