THERE WAS A WOODEN FRAME BUILT OVER THE LADDER AT THE END OF THE PLATFORM SUCH THAT THE TOP HORIZONTAL MEMBER OF THE FRAME HAD TO BE PASSED UDNER TO GET ONTO THE LADDER. WHEN THE EE GRABBED TH E MEMBER TO SWING UNDERNEATH, IT BROKE LOOSE CAUSING THE FALL.
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January 22, 1998
AZ · Metal/Non-Metal
assayer, geologist, metallurgist, engineer, engineer management
SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Phelps Dodge Exploration Corp · Fall onto or against objects
Phelps Dodge Exploration Corp · Fall to lower level, (Not Elsewhere Classified)
EE WAS HANGING A SLUSHER BLOCK AND FELL THROUGH A HOLE CATCHING HIS ARM ON A SHARP PIECE OF CONCRETE ON THE WAY DOWN.
Phelps Dodge Exploration Corp · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)
CLEANING CHUCK JAWS AND SLIPPED AND STABBED THUMB WITH SCREWDRIVER.
Phelps Dodge Exploration Corp · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
WHILE PULLING RODS OUT OF A HOLE EE'S RIGHT HANDWAS PINCHED BETWEEN THE END OF A ROD & THE ROD GUIDE/CRADLE.
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