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Case study · MSHA Record #219961370001
Haul/Off Road/Coal/Ore/Pit/Quarry/Rock/Rubber Tire Truck Driver fatality
May 8, 1996 at 9:20 AM
Miller Materials
· Miller Quarries-Div/Miller & Son Paving Inc
· Bucks County, PA
Investigator narrative
WE BELIEVE THE VICTIM WAS IN THE PROCESS OF ASSEMBLING A DETASLIDE DETONATOR INTO THE CAVITY OF A HDP-1 BOOSTER, WHEN THE CAP OF THE DETASLIDE UNIT SAW OUTSIDE PRESSURES TO THE EXTENT THAT THE CAP DETONATED & IN TURN DETONATED THE HDP-1 BOOSTER INSTANTLY KILLING THE VICTIM.
Record details
- Classification
- EXPLOSIVES AND BREAKING AGENTS
- Accident type
- Struck by flying object
- Activity at time
- Handling Explosives
- Subunit / location
- STRIP, QUARY, OPEN PIT
- Source of injury
- EXPLOSIVE-DIR REL TO INJR
- Nature of injury
- MULTIPLE INJURIES
- Body part affected
- MULTIPLE PARTS (MORE THAN ONE MAJOR)
- Total mining experience
- 1 year
- Experience in this job
- 1 year
- Mine type
- Surface
- Sector
- Metal/Non-Metal
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