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HANDLING OF MATERIALS
220062550013 · 08/30/2006 · Newmont USA Limited
Details
Degree of injury DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT
Classification HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Accident type Struck by... NEC
Occupation Bulldozer operator, Universal operator, Heavy equipment operator, Operating engineer
Activity Move power cable
Injury source CONDCTR,ELCT,CBL,TROL POL
Nature of injury FRACTURE,CHIP
Body part LEG, NEC
Days lost 1
Mine experience 11.17 years
Operator
Controller (parent) Newmont Corporation
Operator Newmont USA Limited
Mine 2602159
Narrative Employee was pulling the slack out of a cable to keep it out from under the tires of haul equipment. The cable started to feed itself out and the employee was struck in the legs by the cable.
Source
Authoritative MSHA Open Government Data
Machine JSON-LD · Markdown
MSHA mine accident data · MORVS CC0 1.0