MACHINERY

Name: MACHINERY at Knife River Corporation - Northwest
Start: 06/27/2005

Fatal · 220051810015 · 06/27/2005 · Knife River Corporation - Northwest

Details

Degree of injury: FATALITY
Classification: MACHINERY
Accident type: Struck against a moving object
Occupation: Bulldozer operator, Universal operator, Heavy equipment operator, Operating engineer
Activity: Bulldozer
Injury source: SURFACE MINING MACHINES
Nature of injury: UNCLASSIFIED,NOT DETERMED
Body part: HEAD,NEC
Days lost: 0
Mine experience: 2 years

Operator

Controller (parent): MDU Resources Group Inc
Operator: Knife River Corporation - Northwest
Mine: 3503465

Narrative

The victim was operating a track dozer to clean off a drill bench in preparation for drilling. The bench was 45 feet above the quarry floor. Apparently the victim was attmpting to turn the dozer around on the bench, backed off this area, and fell to the quarry floor.

Source

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