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Case study · MSHA Record #219982450001
Laborer fatality
August 21, 1998 at 5:30 PM
McIntyre Plant
· Albion Kaolin Company
· Wilkinson County, GA
Investigator narrative
EMPLOYEES WERE VACUUMING OUT HOPPER CAR. HE WAS STANDING ON LADDER INSIDE CAR SHOVELING CLAY OFF SIDES OF CAR. HE ASKED EE TO TELL ANOTHER EE TO SHUT OFF VACUUM. I.NAME COULD NOT HEAR HIM SO H E WENT DOWN AND SHUT OFF VACUUM HIMSELF. HE IMMEDIATELY WENT BACK UP ON TOP OF CAR TO CHECK ON FRANK. HE COULD NOT SEE HIM. THE CLAY HAD CAVED IN ON TOP OF HIM: HE COULD ONLY SEE HIS LANYARD.
Record details
- Classification
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
- Accident type
- Caught in, under or between collapsing material or buildings
- Activity at time
- Hand Load, Hand Shoveling
- 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
- 15 years
- Experience at this mine
- 10 years
- Experience in this job
- 10 years
- Mine type
- Surface
- Sector
- Metal/Non-Metal
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