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Case study · MSHA Record #219962850002
Maintenance Man fatality
September 16, 1996 at 9:46 AM
Cantera Espinosa
· Argos Puerto Rico Corp
· Manati County, PR
Investigator narrative
BASED ON THE INFORMATION COLLECTED AT THIS DATE,THE EMPLOYEE WHILE IN AREA ADJACENT TO THE COOLER SYSTEM SUFFER SERIOUS BURNS IN HIS BODY WHEN ASUDDEN AND UNEXPECTED RELEASE OF HOT RAW MATERIA L SPILLED OVER HIM.
Record details
- Classification
- FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS
- Accident type
- Contact with hot objects or substances
- Activity at time
- Machine Maintenance
- Subunit / location
- MILL OPERATION/PREPARATION PLANT
- Source of injury
- BROKEN ROCK,COAL,ORE,WSTE
- Nature of injury
- BURN OR SCALD (HEAT)
- Body part affected
- MULTIPLE PARTS (MORE THAN ONE MAJOR)
- Total mining experience
- 25 years
- Experience in this job
- 25 years
- Mine type
- Facility
- Sector
- Metal/Non-Metal
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