Fatality · MSHA Record #219901510017

Front-End Loader fatality at Mansfield Pit (Texas Sand & Gravel Company Inc), TX, April 28, 1990

at 11:15 AM

On April 28, 1990, a front-end loader was fatally injured in a fall of face/rib/pillar/side/highwall accident at Mansfield Pit (Texas Sand & Gravel Company Inc), TX.

Mansfield Pit · Surface · Metal/Non-Metal

Operator: Texas Sand & Gravel Company Inc (Roy P Eastland III)

Oldham County, TX

Classification FALL OF FACE/RIB/PILLAR/SIDE/HIGHWALL

Type Struck by falling object

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Investigator narrative

LOADER OPER PARKED LOADER PARALLEL TO AND 12'FROM 36'HIWALL.WAS ENGULFED WHILE STANDING BETWEEN LADDER AND TIRE OF LOADER ON HIWALL SIDE BY A SLIDE OF 10-12 YDS OF MATERIAL.

Record details

Activity at time of incident: Getting On Or Off Equipment
Subunit / location: STRIP, QUARY, OPEN PIT
Accident type: Struck by falling object
Source of injury: CAVING ROCK,COAL,ORE,WSTE
Nature of injury: SUFFOC,SMOK INHILAT,DROWN
Body part affected: BODY SYSTEMS
Total mining experience: 30 years
Experience at this mine: 25 years
Experience in this job: 25 years
Degree of injury: FATALITY

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