# MACHINERY
> **FATAL** · MSHA accident `220021220037` · 04/22/2002 · Dakota Granite Company
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** FATALITY
- **Classification:** MACHINERY
- **Accident type:** Caught in, under or between running or meshing objects
- **Occupation:** Miner, NEC
- **Activity:** Auger (surface)
- **Injury source:** APPAREL,NEC
- **Nature of injury:** SUFFOC,SMOK INHILAT,DROWN
- **Body part:** BODY SYSTEMS
- **Days lost:** —
- **Mine experience:** 1.01 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Richard  Dilts
- **Operator:** Dakota Granite Company
- **Mine:** [3900009](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/3900009)
## Narrative

WHEN OPERATING SLOT DRILL, IT APPEARS HE GOT BETWEEN THE DRILL STEEL AND HIGHWALL AND HIS CLOTHING BECAME ENTANGLED IN THE ROTATING DRILL STEEL. THE CLOTHING WAS PULLED TIGHT AROUND HIS CHEST CAUSING HIM TO BE SUFFOCATED.

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*Source: [MSHA Open Government Data](https://arlweb.msha.gov/OpenGovernmentData/) · AI Analytics · CC0 1.0*