OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #689885
AMPUTATED,CONSTRUCTION,STRUCK BY,CAVE-IN,LEG
Event description
Employee's leg later amputated after tunnel roof cave-in
Investigation abstract
At 6:05 a.m. on July 12, 1986, Employee #1 was a member of a crew that was in a tunnel installing ground support over a mining machine when an approximately 8 f t long by 3 ft wide by 18 in. thick chunk of the tunnel's crown fell onto his ri ght leg. At 6:15 a.m., he was brought to the surface and taken to the hospital, where his leg was amputated below the knee. The tunnel face was approximately 96 5 ft from the main construction shaft.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 27 M
- Nature of injury
- 1
- Part of body
- 16
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 12
- Occupation code
- 869
- Human factor
- 14
- Environmental factor
- 1
- Task assigned
- 1
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