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Case study · MSHA Record #219933190001
Laborer fatality
November 1, 1993 at 8:30 AM
Boron Operations
· U S Borax Inc
· Kern County, CA
Investigator narrative
TWO EMPLOYEES OF CONTRACTOR, ANCON MARINE INC., BECAME ENTRAPPED BY PRODUCT WHILE CLEANING 5 MOL #1 SILO. APPARENTLY BOTH WORKERS WERE WEARING SAFETY HARNESSES, BUT NOT LIFELINES. ONE WORKER W AS SUCCESSFULLY RESCUED; THE SECOND WORKER WAS FATALLY INJURED.
Record details
- Classification
- FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS
- Accident type
- Caught in, under or between collapsing material or buildings
- Activity at time
- Clean Up - Ug Only
- Subunit / location
- MILL OPERATION/PREPARATION PLANT
- Source of injury
- MINERAL ITEMS,NEC
- Nature of injury
- SUFFOC,SMOK INHILAT,DROWN
- Body part affected
- BODY SYSTEMS
- Experience at this mine
- 0 years
- Mine type
- Surface
- Sector
- Metal/Non-Metal
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