EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING FROM A BUCKET TRUCK MAKING CONNECTIONS ON SWITCH AND LIGHTENING ARRESTER TO HIGH VOLTAGE LINE WHEN HE ACCIDENTALLY CAME IN CONTACT WITH ANOTHER SWITCH THAT HAD BEEN PREVIO USLY ENERGIZED WITH 7200 VOLTS.
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Dry Branch Kaolin Company · Contact with electrical current
December 2, 1991
AL · Metal/Non-Metal
front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator
Fatality · POWERED HAULAGE
Mullite Company Of America · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)
VICTIM WAS INSPECTING SCRAPER FOR OIL LEAK. WHILE CHECKING BOTTOM OF SCRAPER, A MOVING PIECE OF METAL HIT VICTIM IN HEAD.
November 8, 1990
GA · Metal/Non-Metal
laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman
Fatality · OTHER
Dry Branch Kaolin Company · Inhalation of radiations, caustics, toxic and noxious substances
HE ENTERED CHEMICAL TANK TO INSTALL THREADED FLANGE FOR PROBE
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