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Case study · MSHA Record #219921320001
Auger Helper fatality
May 4, 1992 at 11:45 PM
Galveston Grinding Plant
· M-I Drilling Fluids Company
· Galveston County, TX
Investigator narrative
ATTEMPTING TO CLEAN PULLEYS ON CRUDE ORE LONG BELT LEADING TO STORAGE TANKS, WHEN HE WAS PULLED INTO A PINCH POINT USING BROKEN HANDLE HOE TO SCRAPE THE PULLEY, SYSTEM HAD NOT BEEN DE-ENGERG IZED OR LOCKED OUT AND WAS STILL IN OPERATION
Record details
- Classification
- POWERED HAULAGE
- Accident type
- Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
- Activity at time
- Hand Tools (Not Powered)
- Subunit / location
- MILL OPERATION/PREPARATION PLANT
- Source of injury
- BELT CONVEYORS
- Nature of injury
- MULTIPLE INJURIES
- Body part affected
- MULTIPLE PARTS (MORE THAN ONE MAJOR)
- Total mining experience
- 9 years
- Experience at this mine
- 9 years
- Experience in this job
- 4 years
- Mine type
- Facility
- Sector
- Metal/Non-Metal
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