Mining Incidents

Southwest Sand & Gravel-Joint Venture operator

MSHA operator ID: L13691
Fatalities
1
Total incidents
3
Mines on record
1
Years on record
1984–1989

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Incident timeline

1989
1 (1f)
1987
1
1984
1

Mines on record

Fatalities under this operator

1 recorded
June 22, 1989 LA · Metal/Non-Metal crane operator, mobile equipment operator (meo), dragline operator, dropball operator, rigger Fatality · ELECTRICAL
Southwest Sand & Gravel-Joint Venture · Contact with electrical current

CRANE OPERATOR WAS MOVING CRANE BOOM. HIT POWER LINE. HE WAS INSTRUCTED TO ONLY CUT STEEL FROM STRUCTURE AND NOT TO GET ON CRANE AS IT WAS NOT HIS ASSIGNED MACHINE. NOT KNOWN WHY HE DID MOVE C RANE BOOM.

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