Fatality · MSHA Record #219920100048
Front-End Loader
October 2, 1991
at 11:00 AM
Operator:
TXI (A/K/A Texas Industries Inc)
(Texas Industries Inc)
Contractor on site:
IBB
Ellis County, TX
Classification
POWERED HAULAGE
Type
Struck against a moving object
Investigator narrative
ON 10-2-91, HE WAS OPERATING A 1455B CASE LOADER PUSHING LOOSE OVERBURDEN DOWN A SLOPE TO BE LOADED ONTO HAUL TRUCKS WHEN, FOR REASONS UNKNOWN, FROM HIS WORK AREA HE BACKED UP FOR SIXTY FEET A ND OVER A FOUR FOOT SAFETY BERM, AND THEN ANOTHER FORTY FEET TO THE EDGE OF THE HIGHWALL AND OVER. HE FELL APPROX. FORTY FEET TO THE QUARRY FLOOR RESULTING IN HIS DEATH.
Record details
- Activity at time of incident
- Front-End Loader
- Subunit / location
- STRIP, QUARY, OPEN PIT
- Accident type
- Struck against a moving object
- Source of injury
- SURFACE MINING MACHINES
- Nature of injury
- MULTIPLE INJURIES
- Body part affected
- MULTIPLE PARTS (MORE THAN ONE MAJOR)
- Total mining experience
- 1 year
- Experience at this mine
- 4 years
- Experience in this job
- 4 years
- Degree of injury
- FATALITY
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