Mine Safety and Health Administration Metal and Nonmetal Mine Safety and Health Report of Investigation: Surface Nonmetal Mine (Phosphate Rock), Fatal Machinery Accident, Febraury 12, 2011. McDonald Construction Co., Contractor I.D. No. BA3 at Hardee Phosphate Complex, C.F. Industries Inc., Bowling Green, Hardee County, Florida, Mine I.D. 08-00903.

摘要

Jose A. Soto, contract road grader operator, age 41, was killed on February 12, 2011, when he was struck by a road grader. Soto had conducted a pre-operational inspection on his road grader. He dismounted the road grader and traveled by foot into a buffer zone that was designated for foot traffic only. The buffer zone was located between the employee parking lot and the ready line for mobile equipment. Another road grader backed into the buffer zone and struck and ran over Soto as he and another equipment operator were exchanging safety glasses. The accident occurred because contract management policies, procedures, and controls were inadequate and failed to protect persons in the buffer zone. Although it was designated for foot traffic only, the buffer zone was not kept free of mobile equipment. Contract management did not monitor this area to ensure that mobile equipment was not permitted to travel in this area.