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POWERED HAULAGE

220143020002 · 10/22/2014 · R J Grondin & Sons

Details

Degree of injury
DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT
Classification
POWERED HAULAGE
Accident type
Caught in, under or between running or meshing objects
Occupation
Outside foreman, Leadman
Activity
Machine maintenance
Injury source
BELT CONVEYORS
Nature of injury
FRACTURE,CHIP
Body part
BACK (MUSCLES/SPINE/S-CORD/TAILBONE)
Days lost
23
Mine experience
34 years

Operator

Controller (parent)
Robert J Grondin; Kenneth J Grondin
Operator
R J Grondin & Sons
Mine
1700708

Narrative

EE was fixing a skirt rubber on conveyor for crusher. He had not shut down/locked out the machine. As he climbed out from under crusher he hit the control for the conveyor that he was kneeling on. EE was pulled 20' up on the conveyor where he held onto a steel cross member until a fellow employee shut down the machine. He suffered a twisted ankle & a fractured vertebra in his back.

Source

Authoritative
MSHA Open Government Data
Machine
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