HANDLING OF MATERIALS

Name: HANDLING OF MATERIALS at Teck Washington Incorporated
Start: 05/30/2010

220101550014 · 05/30/2010 · Teck Washington Incorporated

Details

Degree of injury: NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
Classification: HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Accident type: Struck by... NEC
Occupation: Drill helper
Activity: Handling explosives
Injury source: METAL,NEC(PIPE,WIRE,NAIL)
Nature of injury: CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
Body part: HAND (NOT WRIST OR FINGERS)
Days lost: 0
Mine experience: 4 years

Operator

Controller (parent): Teck Resources Limited
Operator: Teck Washington Incorporated
Mine: 4500366

Narrative

Experienced employee was loading an inner core tube into the outer core barrel by hand while the latch ears were extended. The latch ears prevented the inner core tube from entering the core barrel and the force caused the latch head to puncture the driller's glove and furrow his hand.

Source

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