PRCS fatality in silo (MSHA)

This tragedy is a sad example of why OSHA says…

Entry … is considered to have occurred as soon as any part of the entrant's body breaks the plane of an opening into the space.

I am not sold on MSHA’s Root Cause Analysis, but we can all learn a lot from this tragedy and apply it to our non-mining workplaces!

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