# MACHINERY
> **FATAL** · MSHA accident `220121520001` · 05/23/2012 · Meridian Aggregates Company, A Limited Partnership
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** FATALITY
- **Classification:** MACHINERY
- **Accident type:** Drowning
- **Occupation:** Outside foreman, Leadman
- **Activity:** Power shovel, Dragline
- **Injury source:** WATER
- **Nature of injury:** SUFFOC,SMOK INHILAT,DROWN
- **Body part:** BODY SYSTEMS
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 9.9 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Martin Marietta Materials Inc
- **Operator:** Meridian Aggregates Company, A Limited Partnership
- **Mine:** [3400460](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/3400460)
## Narrative

Employee was operating an excavator between two small ponds when the ground beneath the excavator tracks failed and the excavator toppled into one of the ponds.

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*Source: [MSHA Open Government Data](https://arlweb.msha.gov/OpenGovernmentData/) · AI Analytics · CC0 1.0*