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MACHINERY
220001080031 · 03/29/2000 · Empire Iron Mining Partnership
Details
- Degree of injury
- NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
- Classification
- MACHINERY
- Accident type
- Fall to the walkway or working surface
- Occupation
- Backhoe operator, Trackhoe operator, Crane operator
- Activity
- Blow gun, Airlance
- Injury source
- GROUND
- Nature of injury
- SPRAIN,STRAIN RUPT DISC
- Body part
- BACK (MUSCLES/SPINE/S-CORD/TAILBONE)
- Days lost
- —
- Mine experience
- 5 years
Operator
- Controller (parent)
- Cliffs Natural Resources Inc; ArcelorMittal
- Operator
- Empire Iron Mining Partnership
- Mine
- 2001012
Narrative
INJURED WAS USING AN AIR PIPE TO CLEAN A RAILROAD SWITCH. THE PRESSURE CAUSED HIM TO LOOSE HIS BALANCE AND FALL. THIS RESULTED IN A BACK INJURY.
Source
- Authoritative
- MSHA Open Government Data
- Machine
- JSON-LD · Markdown