POWERED HAULAGE

Name: POWERED HAULAGE at Lafarge Southwest
Start: 02/16/2004

220041170111 · 02/16/2004 · Lafarge Southwest

Details

Degree of injury: DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
Classification: POWERED HAULAGE
Accident type: Struck against a moving object
Occupation: Front-end loader, Scraper-loader operator, Pan operator, Payloader, Scraper rig operator
Activity: Scraper, Pan scraper
Injury source: SURFACE MINING MACHINES
Nature of injury: FRACTURE,CHIP
Body part: BACK (MUSCLES/SPINE/S-CORD/TAILBONE)
Days lost: 223
Mine experience: 0.1 years

Operator

Controller (parent): Lafarge S A
Operator: Lafarge Southwest
Mine: 2901475

Narrative

EQUIP. OPERATOR CHOSE TO CHANGE THE NORMAL ROUTE OF HAUL. HE CROSSED THE PATH WHICH THE SCRAPERS HAD BEEN HAULING AND HIT A ROUGH SPOT, CAUSING A JOLT AND INJURING HIS BACK. IT IS UNKNOWN WHY THE OPERATOR CHANGED THE HAUL ROUTE FROM WHAT HE WAS INSTRUCTED TO DO.

Source

Authoritative: MSHA Open Government Data
Machine: JSON-LD · Markdown