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Case study · MSHA Record #219910870002
Driller Operator fatality
March 19, 1991 at 1:30 PM
Homestake Mine Lead
· Homestake Mining Company of California
· Lawrence County, SD
Investigator narrative
EMPL WAS WORKING A DIAMOND DRILL OPERATORAT 4100 LEVEL 69 STOPE 17L & WAS LAST HEARD FROM WHEN HE ALLED TELE OPER AROUND 11:00AM EMPL WAS FOUND IN 46 BOREHOLE 4100-4400 APPROX 4:40 PM.
Record details
- Classification
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
- Accident type
- Fall down raise, shaft or manway
- Activity at time
- Drill Face, Rib, Side, Down
- Subunit / location
- UNDERGROUND
- Underground location
- FACE
- Mining method
- Conventional Stoping
- Source of injury
- MINE FLOOR,BOTTOM,FOOTWAL
- Nature of injury
- FRACTURE,CHIP
- Body part affected
- NECK
- Total mining experience
- 14 years
- Experience at this mine
- 14 years
- Experience in this job
- 12 years
- Mine type
- Surface
- Sector
- Metal/Non-Metal
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