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Case study · MSHA Record #219950860001
Haul/Off Road/Coal/Ore/Pit/Quarry/Rock/Rubber Tire Truck Driver fatality
March 17, 1995 at 11:30 AM
Lotawana Quarry
· Barber & Sons Aggregate
· Jackson County, MO
Investigator narrative
THE VICTIM HAD POSITIONED HIMSELF ON THE GROUND IN AN AREA OF OBSTRUCTED VIEW TO THE DRIVER OF A SECOND TRUCK WHILE WAITING TO BE LOADED. AS THE SECOND DRIVER PULLED AWAY AFTER BEING LOADED, H E NOTICED HIS TAILGATE HAD NOT CLOSED. REALIZINGHIS TRUCK WOULD HAVE TO BE UNLOADED IN ORDER TO CLOSE THE TAILGATE THE SECOND DRIVER BACKED UP TO UNLOAD. WHEN THE TRUCK WAS UNLOADED AND THE T
Record details
- Classification
- POWERED HAULAGE
- Accident type
- Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
- Activity at time
- Observe Operations
- Subunit / location
- STRIP, QUARY, OPEN PIT
- Source of injury
- HGHWY ORE CARIER,LRGE TRK
- Nature of injury
- CRUSHING
- Body part affected
- CHEST (RIBS/BREAST BONE/CHEST ORGNS)
- Mine type
- Surface
- Sector
- Metal/Non-Metal
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