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Case study · MSHA Record #219940670179
Haul/Off Road/Coal/Ore/Pit/Quarry/Rock/Rubber Tire Truck Driver fatality
March 4, 1994 at 10:30 AM
Guadalupe
· American Rock & Asphalt Inc
· San Mateo County, CA
Investigator narrative
VICTIM WAS TRAVELING DOWN THE PIT ROAD IN SECOND GEAR. WITNESS SAID HE SEEMED TO BE DRVING ERRATICALLY AS HE WAS STRIKING THE BERM. AT A POINT WHERE THE ROAD TURNED, THE TRUCK WENT OVER THE BE RM AND THE PIT WALL. DRIVER WAS RETRIEVED AND TRANSPORTED TO THE HOSPITAL. HE DIED WITHOUT REGAINING CONSCIOUSNESS.
Record details
- Classification
- POWERED HAULAGE
- Accident type
- Struck against a moving object
- Activity at time
- Haulage Or Dump Truck
- Subunit / location
- STRIP, QUARY, OPEN PIT
- Source of injury
- HGHWY ORE CARIER,LRGE TRK
- Nature of injury
- MULTIPLE INJURIES
- Body part affected
- MULTIPLE PARTS (MORE THAN ONE MAJOR)
- Total mining experience
- 23 years
- Experience at this mine
- 23 years
- Experience in this job
- 23 years
- Mine type
- Surface
- Sector
- Metal/Non-Metal
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