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MACHINERY

220030760002 · 03/13/2003 · Prestage Quarries Inc

Details

Degree of injury
PERM TOT OR PERM PRTL DISABLTY
Classification
MACHINERY
Accident type
Caught in, under or between two or more moving objects
Occupation
Mine manager, Mine foreman, Mine owner
Activity
Machine maintenance
Injury source
SURFACE MINING MACHINES
Nature of injury
AMPUTATION OR ENUCLEATION
Body part
FOREARM/ULNAR/RADIUS
Days lost
15
Mine experience
21 years

Operator

Controller (parent)
Gary Milligan; Richard Schatzer
Operator
Prestage Quarries Inc
Mine
2301586

Narrative

EE WAS DRILLING WITH AN AIR TRACK DRILL, DURING THE PROCESS OF OPERATION HE WAS CHANGING DRILL STEEL AND SOMEHOW HIS RIGHT HAND GOT CAUGHT BETWEEN A SPROCKET & ROLLER CHAIN. EE CANNOT RECALL HOW OR WHY HIS HAND GOT NEAR THE SPROCKET. EE'S RIGHT HAND WAS SO SEVERLY INJURED THAT THE DR.'S HAD NO CHOICE BUT TO AMPUTATE ABOVE THE RIGHT WRIST.

Source

Authoritative
MSHA Open Government Data
Machine
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