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Case study · MSHA Record #219902000001
Maintenance Man fatality
June 27, 1990 at 8:20 AM
PORT #1
· Woodard Construction Inc
· Coryell County, TX
Investigator narrative
I.NAME REPLACING HYDRAULIC LINE ON LOADER.PLACED RR X-TIE UNDER BOOM OF LOADER INSTEAD OF USING SAFETY ANGLES DESIGNED -RR TIE COLLAPSED LETTING BOOM FALL,CRUSHING I.NAME RESULTING IN DEATH.
Record details
- Classification
- FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS
- Accident type
- Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
- Activity at time
- Machine Maintenance
- Subunit / location
- STRIP, QUARY, OPEN PIT
- Source of injury
- SURFACE MINING MACHINES
- Nature of injury
- CRUSHING
- Body part affected
- CHEST (RIBS/BREAST BONE/CHEST ORGNS)
- Total mining experience
- 15 years
- Experience at this mine
- 15 years
- Experience in this job
- 15 years
- Mine type
- Surface
- Sector
- Metal/Non-Metal
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