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Case study · MSHA Record #219950620002
Haul/Off Road/Coal/Ore/Pit/Quarry/Rock/Rubber Tire Truck Driver fatality
February 24, 1995 at 8:30 AM
Sonoma Rock Company
· Sonoma County, CA
Investigator narrative
AN EE OF PIPELINE EXCAVATING CO OF SANTA ROSA, CA WAS OFF LOADING THE OVER LOADED PORTION OF AGGREGATE BASE MATERIAL AT THE SONOMA ROCK QUARRY. THE TRUCK HAD BEEN LOADED JUST A FEW MIN EARLIER BY A QUARRY EE, EE WIGH MASTER. THE DRIVER DROVHIS TRUCK NEXT TO THE STOCKPILE HAD HAD JUST LOADED FROM GOT OUT OF THE TRUCK, RAISED THE FRONT BOX OF THE TRUCK AND WAS APPARENTLY TRYING TO RE
Record details
- Classification
- FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS
- Accident type
- Caught in, under or between collapsing material or buildings
- Activity at time
- Hand Load, Hand Shoveling
- Subunit / location
- STRIP, QUARY, OPEN PIT
- Source of injury
- SAND,GRAVEL,SHELL
- Nature of injury
- SUFFOC,SMOK INHILAT,DROWN
- Body part affected
- BODY SYSTEMS
- Mine type
- Surface
- Sector
- Metal/Non-Metal
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