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Case study · MSHA Record #219972930004
Front-End Loader fatality
September 30, 1997 at 3:00 PM
UTLEY PIT
· Shallow Ford Construction Company Inc
· Bell County, TX
Investigator narrative
OPERATOR WAS STRIPPING OVERBURDEN FROM A SAND & GRAVEL DEPOSIT. HE DROVE HIS SCRAPER UP ONTO AN EXISTING (APPROX. 5' TALL) TOPSOIL STOCKPILE. HE DROVE HIS SCRAPER OFF OF THE EDGE AND TURNED IT ONTO ITS SIDE. HIS LEFT LEG WAS SEVERED BY THE ROPS, AS WAS HIS LEFT ARM. HE DIED OF INTERNAL INJURIES AT THE HOSPITAL.
Record details
- Classification
- POWERED HAULAGE
- Accident type
- Struck against a moving object
- Activity at time
- Scraper, Pan Scraper
- Subunit / location
- STRIP, QUARY, OPEN PIT
- Source of injury
- SURFACE MINING MACHINES
- Nature of injury
- MULTIPLE INJURIES
- Body part affected
- MULTIPLE PARTS (MORE THAN ONE MAJOR)
- Total mining experience
- 0 years
- Experience at this mine
- 0 years
- Experience in this job
- 0 years
- Mine type
- Surface
- Sector
- Metal/Non-Metal
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