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SNOWFALL OCCURR9D 11-10-85 & 11-11-85 EMP WAS WALKING ON SNOW COVERED PLASTIC OF PRENGANT SOLUTION COLLECTION TROUGH ON PAD 2 CELL 4, TO TAKE 4:00 AM SAMPLE, SLIPPED & FELL TWISTED LEFT KNEE
THE PLANT OPERATOR WAS ADDING APPROX A 30 LB CONTAINER OF CAUSTIC GRANULES TO THE CYANIDE STRIP SOLUTION TANK THE CAUSTIC SURGED ENMASS FROM THE CONTAINER INTO THE SOLUTION CAUSING AN ABRUPT REACTION THE OPERATOR ANTICIPATED THE REACTION AND WAS MOVING AWAY RAPIDLY WHEN SOME SOLUTION SPLATTERED ON HIS UPPER LEGS PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT WAS USED BUT HE PROBABLY INHALED SOME CYANIDE
PVC COUPLING HAD BEEN INSTALLED IN STRIPPING VESSEL EDUCTING LINE WITH EXTENSION OF PVC TUBE LINE TO ELIMINATE SHARPE 90 DEGREE ELBOWS WHICH WAS SUSPECTED TO CAUSE BREAKDOWN OF COARSE CARBON G RANULES.WHEN VALVE WAS OPENED TO BLEED DOWN THE PRESSURE IN STRIPPING VESSEL,COMBINED PRESSURE ND TEMPERATURE PASSING THRU PVC COUPLING CAUSED IT TO SEPARATE ALLOWING HOT SOLUTION AND STEAM T
5:00 SUNDAY AM,I.NAME & I.NAME WENT TO MINE IN ORDER TO GET 2 DOZERS RUNNING FOR THAT DAYS SHIFT.AFTER I.NAME LEFT I.NAME WENT TO ROAD GRADER FROR SOME UNKNOWN REASON.BLADE WAS PARKED AT UPPE END OF 8% HAUL ROAD AND PARKED SO IT WOULD RUN INTO BANK IF IT GOT AWAY.SOMEHOW I.NAME GOT BLADE HEADED STRAIGHT DOWN HAUL RD AROUND 90 DEGREE CURVE AND DOWN 4500\ OF RD WHERE HE TURNED BLADE