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Case study · MSHA Record #219940530001
Belt Foreman fatality
February 10, 1994 at 11:32 AM
EVTAC PLANT
· Oglebay Norton Taconite Company
· St Louis County, MN
Investigator narrative
EMPLOYEES WERE ATTEMPTING TO FREE BUILT UP SLAG AND DEBRIS FROM WEST WALL OF #2 GRATE PREHEAT AREA. EMPLOYEE INVOLVED WAS ON BACK END OF JACKHAMMER AND BEFORE STARTING, MATERIAL FELL FROM ABOV E, CAUSING ABOVE STATED FATALITY.
Record details
- Classification
- FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS
- Accident type
- Struck by falling object
- Activity at time
- Machine Maintenance
- Subunit / location
- MILL OPERATION/PREPARATION PLANT
- Source of injury
- KILN PROD,INC BLDUP,REMOV
- Nature of injury
- MULTIPLE INJURIES
- Body part affected
- MULTIPLE PARTS (MORE THAN ONE MAJOR)
- Total mining experience
- 29 years
- Experience at this mine
- 29 years
- Experience in this job
- 11 years
- Mine type
- Facility
- Sector
- Metal/Non-Metal
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