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Case study · MSHA Record #219941190001
Warehouseman fatality
February 17, 1994 at 3:00 AM
Martin Marietta - Gabbs Mine
· Premier Services Corp
· Nye County, NV
Investigator narrative
IT APPEARS THAT FRED TRIED TO CLIMB ONTO OR CROSS OVER THE BELT FROM THE FAR SIDE WHILE THE BELT WAS STILL ON, RATHER THAN TURN IT OFF FIRST OR USE THE PROPER CROSSOVER STAIRS AND WALKWAY. HE THEN SLIPPED OR TRIPPED, FALLING AGAINST THE BELT WHILE, SINCE IT WAS ON AND MOVING AT A PRETTY HIGH SPEED, JAMMED HIM AGAINST AND PARTIALLY UNDER THE FEEDER FRAME, RESULTING IN SEVERE INTERNA
Record details
- Classification
- POWERED HAULAGE
- Accident type
- Caught in, under or between NEC
- Activity at time
- Cross Over (Conveyor)
- Subunit / location
- MILL OPERATION/PREPARATION PLANT
- Source of injury
- BELT CONVEYORS
- Nature of injury
- MULTIPLE INJURIES
- Body part affected
- ABDOMEN/INTERNAL ORGANS
- Total mining experience
- 14 years
- Experience at this mine
- 13 years
- Experience in this job
- 0 years
- Mine type
- Surface
- Sector
- Metal/Non-Metal
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