HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)

Name: HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) at Knife River - South Dakota
Start: 06/14/2023

220231710008 · 06/14/2023 · Knife River - South Dakota

Details

Degree of injury: NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
Classification: HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Accident type: Struck by flying object
Occupation: Front-end loader, Scraper-loader operator, Pan operator, Payloader, Scraper rig operator
Activity: Hand tools (not powered)
Injury source: METAL,NEC(PIPE,WIRE,NAIL)
Nature of injury: CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
Body part: CHEST (RIBS/BREAST BONE/CHEST ORGNS)
Days lost: 0
Mine experience: 30.08 years

Operator

Controller (parent): Knife River Corporation
Operator: Knife River - South Dakota
Mine: 3900008

Narrative

EE was removing a worn bucket tooth on the 990H Loader. When the tooth failed to separate from the bucket adapter, EE used a sledgehammer to strike the tooth resulting a piece of shrapnel from the tooth striking EE in the chest and becoming imbedded.

Source

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