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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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