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Ddasaccident503, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident503, Hd-Aid
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As a result of the explosion the deminer received minor injuries to his left hand and crush injuries to his left arm plus a single wound (1 to 1.5cm) to his left thigh where a foreign body penetrated the muscle. The [National demining agency] doctor indicated this object to be a small stone. These injuries indicate that his left hand was close to the point of detonation and he was facing sideways to allow the foreign object to pass under his protective vest. This is not consistent with proper use of the prodder but could be said to be consistent …
Ddasaccident502, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident502, Hd-Aid
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Task no.007 started by [National demining agency] Sur.T-10 on 24-Sep-06 and it is ongoing (92%) but unfortunately on 12-11-2006 at 11:00am demining accident happened on [Victim No.1] Surveyor of [National demining agency] Sur. Team no. 10, while he was busy on excavation in the boundary lane. Generally Land type of the contaminated area is Grazing in accordance with the LIS information the mentioned community is accounted as high impact, including three suspected hazard areas (SHAs). This is a self Propelled (weedy) land for a kind of Vegetable using for medicine that is exported from Afghanistan to India ... which is …
Ddasaccident443, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident443, Hd-Aid
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On 30 October at 10:40 hrs a PMN anti personnel mine detonated on [the Victim] deminer of party 05, section 02 of [Demining group] MCT-10 while he was working in the site. The deminer was working at squatting position with trowel on the area which was ripped by [Demining group] MDU-08 backhoe as the accident happened. Since the deminer was fully dressed with PPE, his body did not receive serious injuries just some dust interred his eyes and his left arm got a minor trauma.
Ddasaccident451, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident451, Hd-Aid
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While Deminer was using mine detector, he found a signal, so he excavated the ground till he found a can and took it out. He checked again, still there was signal. He had started for more prodding. Suddenly the mine detonated. In result, he got injured on his right hands. Nose, lover lip, left Hand ,right Hand
Ddasaccident547, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident547, Hd-Aid
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On 22 August 2006 at 1105 hrs a PMN mine detonated on [the Victim] deminer of party 10, section -04 of ATC MCT-09 while he was working in the site stepped on the mine. At the same day the deminer has detected a PMN mine at 10:05 am, after marking of the mine by mine marker the deminer has continued to work and around 11:00 the same deminer detected another PMN mine as he marked this mine by a small marker. After detecting this mine the relevant section leader called him to stop operation and come out from the work …
Ddasaccident482, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident482, Hd-Aid
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Continuing his SOP drills he began to excavate the area of the source of the signal to the metal detector using the trowel issued to him for this purpose. He may not have been working to the SOP drill, as it seems likely that, because of the restricted area of work caused by the surrounding rocks, he was digging directly down to the mine, rather than digging across to the mine by excavating a small trench. An explosion occurred when the PMN antipersonnel mine, which was the source of the metal detector signal, detonated.
Ddasaccident452, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident452, Hd-Aid
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The Deminer was using mine detector. In result, he found a signal, so he excavated the ground till he found a can and took it out. He checked again, still there was signal. He started for more excavation, suddenly the mine detonated. In result, he got injured on his right hand index finger and in palm.
Ddasaccident550, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident550, Hd-Aid
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According to Mr. [Name removed] Team leader of MCT-05 and Mr. [Name removed] section leader of section No 03 of MCT-05 that [The victim] deminer was doing prodding/excavating on the signal of F3 detector according to the [International demining company] SOP, most probably due to changing/tilting the mine position, it detonated during the prodding/excavation.
Ddasaccident513, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident513, Hd-Aid
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On 20/06/06, the team was normally working in the site. [The Victim] a deminer of party -3-, section-02, MCT-08, on whom the accident occurred was working in a ditch in which sediment soils has been shifted gradually by water. The work procedure adopted by the team command group for the ditch was full excavation with unspecified clearance depth till original surface of the ground, the deminer has assumed that there is no longer any danger and it may be the original surface, therefore he has changed the full excavation method to signal picking and has ignored the full excavation. Proceeding …
Ddasaccident448, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident448, Hd-Aid
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The deminer had worked in the task site for a total of 25 days, was familiar with the slightly sloping terrain where he was working and he was working well in the lead up period to the accident. There were no witnesses to the accident except for the Section Leader, who was located at his control-point and who noticed two flashes in the vicinity of the accident.
Ddasaccident555, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident555, Hd-Aid
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During demining operations, a mine was involuntarily detonated in a mine line in the vicinity of Alpha 4 and Alpha 6 at approximately 7.28am. One deminer was involved and sustained injuries: the deminer was immediately taken to Camp Lacey US military hospital.
Ddasaccident508, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident508, Hd-Aid
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Deminer [Name removed] starts his work after the guidance of his section leader. As the working was going on and he got a signal on his detector he marked the signal and start the prodding/excavation after the prodding/excavation he discovered a PMN/AP mine and marked it then informed his section leader and subsequently the team leader. Then injured deminer [the Victim] start to [do] the detecting. After a while he got tired and went to drink the water. After coming starts the work again and he was returning back in the working line to mark the cleared/working line, during this …
Ddasaccident526, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident526, Hd-Aid
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Date and country. [Name removed] - Blinded in both eyes, amputation of hand. PMN mine explosion, the day before the accident during the QA process the QA team found a indication (30 cm) over the tape separating the cleared area from the uncleared area. This was to be left for the next days work. The deminer decided to check this with his detector, finding the indication, he then proceeded to prod in the kneeling position. This action triggered the detonation, He was not wearing any PPE.
Ddasaccident481, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident481, Hd-Aid
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At about 0930hrs, [Victim No.2] observed the shadow of [Victim No.1] walking behind him. He saw [Victim No.1] walk along the cleared lane, to a point in front and slightly left of where [Victim No.2] was working. At this time, [Victim No.1] was inside the cleared area, about one-and-a-half metres from where [Victim No.2] was working. One or two seconds after this, an explosion occurred when the PMN/ML-7 combination which killed [Victim No.1] detonated [inside the uncleared area in front of the deminer: it appears that Victim No.1 stepped into the uncleared area for some reason and his injuries imply …