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Case study · MSHA Record #219962070001
Welder (Shop) fatality
July 17, 1996 at 5:05 PM
Bullitt County Stone Company
· Bullitt County, KY
Investigator narrative
PUGMILL OPERATOR AND WELDER, CUTTING OUT THE REAR PLATE OF THE PUGMILL TUNNEL FROM THE OUTSIDE OF THE TUNNEL. MATERIAL ABOVE THEM SLOUGHED OFF TRAPPING THE OPERATOR AT THE WAIST AND COMPLETELY BURYING THE WELDER. EMP WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE. THE OPERATOR PULLED MUSCLES IN LEFT LEG, AND WAS TREATED FOR SHOCK.
Record details
- Classification
- FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS
- Accident type
- Caught in, under or between collapsing material or buildings
- Activity at time
- Welding Or Cutting
- Subunit / location
- MILL OPERATION/PREPARATION PLANT
- Source of injury
- LOOSE DIRT AND MUD
- Nature of injury
- SUFFOC,SMOK INHILAT,DROWN
- Body part affected
- BODY SYSTEMS
- Total mining experience
- 3 years
- Experience at this mine
- 0 years
- Experience in this job
- 3 years
- Mine type
- Underground
- Sector
- Metal/Non-Metal
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