OTHER

Name: OTHER at Western Nevada Materials
Start: 09/28/2022

Fatal · 220222780015 · 09/28/2022 · Western Nevada Materials

Details

Degree of injury: FATALITY
Classification: OTHER
Accident type: Struck by rolling or sliding object
Occupation: Bulldozer operator, Universal operator, Heavy equipment operator, Operating engineer
Activity: Walking, Running
Injury source: LANDSLIDE (SURF ONLY)
Nature of injury: CRUSHING
Body part: MULTIPLE PARTS (MORE THAN ONE MAJOR)
Days lost: —
Mine experience: 3.77 years

Operator

Controller (parent): Teichert Inc
Operator: Western Nevada Materials
Mine: 2600803

Narrative

Miner used a front-end loader to carve a path into stacked material, then exited the loader and entered the newly-carved path on foot. The newly-created unstable wall of the material collapsed and covered the miner, causing a fatality.

Source

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