# MACHINERY
> **FATAL** · MSHA accident `220080640055` · 02/25/2008 · Park View Sand & Gravel, LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** FATALITY
- **Classification:** MACHINERY
- **Accident type:** Drowning
- **Occupation:** Superintendent
- **Activity:** Power shovel, Dragline
- **Injury source:** WATER
- **Nature of injury:** SUFFOC,SMOK INHILAT,DROWN
- **Body part:** BODY SYSTEMS
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 0.23 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Georgia A  Pavin
- **Operator:** Park View Sand & Gravel, LLC
- **Mine:** [4703001](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4703001)
## Narrative

The victim was using an excavator to free a dragline from an ice-covered pit floor. The excavator traveled over an ice-covered, 10 feet deep ditch and broke through the ice. The victim was ejected and was recovered from the water about 6 hours after accident.

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