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Case study · MSHA Record #219952430001
Front-End Loader fatality
August 3, 1995 at 11:35 AM
PRZEKOPSKI SAND & GRAVEL & FARM
· Przekopski Sand Gravel & Farm
· New London County, CT
Investigator narrative
WORKER OPERATING FRONT END LOADER TO PLACE MATERIAL FOR A BERM NEXT TO AN OPEN PIT 12' DEEP, GOT TOO CLOSE AND THE PIT WALL COLLAPSED OVERTURNING THE LOADER AND KILLING THE OPERATOR.
Record details
- Classification
- POWERED HAULAGE
- Accident type
- Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
- Activity at time
- Front-End Loader
- Subunit / location
- STRIP, QUARY, OPEN PIT
- Source of injury
- SURFACE MINING MACHINES
- Nature of injury
- CRUSHING
- Body part affected
- MULTIPLE PARTS (MORE THAN ONE MAJOR)
- Mine type
- Surface
- Sector
- Metal/Non-Metal
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