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Case study · MSHA Record #219991650001

Crane Operator fatality

May 7, 1999 at 8:00 AM
COLLINS DREDGE · Bolivar County Gravel Company · Bolivar County, MS
Investigator narrative
EE ATTEMPTING TO REMOVE DEBRIS FROM AREA AROUND DREDGE BY TYPING ROPE TO TREE ON BANK. ROPE APPARENTLY GOT BENEATH BOAT AND WHEN THE ROPE BECAME TENSE, TURNED THE BOAT OVER. TWO EE FELL INTO W ATER AND ONE WAS NOT RECOVERED.
Record details
Classification
OTHER
Accident type
Drowning
Activity at time
Handling Supplies Or Material
Subunit / location
DREDGE
Source of injury
WATER
Nature of injury
SUFFOC,SMOK INHILAT,DROWN
Body part affected
BODY SYSTEMS
Experience in this job
10 years
Mine type
Surface
Sector
Metal/Non-Metal
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