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Ddasaccident088, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident088, Hd-Aid
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The investigators determined that, after a dog had signalled at a spot, the deminer located a signal with a detector and marked it, then started digging with a pick. His partner warning him to change to a bayonet at the second marker but he ignored the warning. He dug up to the third marker with the pick, so struck the mine. His pick was "destroyed".
Ddasaccident101, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident101, Hd-Aid
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The investigators determined that the victim thought a detector reading was a fragment and was careless when prodding. The mine was identified as a PMN (from "found fragments/pieces"). The victim's bayonet was "lost" and his helmet damaged.
Ddasaccident089, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident089, Hd-Aid
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The investigators determined that the victim was prodding with a bayonet in the squatting position, but was not wearing a frag-vest. He was wearing his helmet when he prodded onto a PMN mine. The victim's bayonet was "lost" and the helmet damaged.
Ddasaccident090, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident090, Hd-Aid
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The investigators determined that the victim was working in a bushy clearance lane with continuous detector readings. Because of the continuous reading, he was digging all of the area and prodded with excessive force and let off a PMN. They identified the device by "found fragments". The victim believing that he had touched a tripwire with his bayonet.
Ddasaccident091, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident091, Hd-Aid
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The investigators determined that the victim was clearing an area containing numerous fuzes. Instead of destroying the fuze where it was, he carried the fuze to another place where he "might have" dropped it and caused the accident. The device was identified as a mortar fuze, one among many UXO spread around the area and blast damaged.
Ddasaccident092, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident092, Hd-Aid
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The investigators decided that the accident occurred because the victim ignored technical safety procedures and used a shovel for investigation and prodding purposes. He applied too much pressure on the device and "caused the explosion".
Ddasaccident093, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident093, Hd-Aid
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The Investigators determined that the accident occurred when the Assistant Team Leader and the Section Leader went to inspect the site of another accident that had occurred the day before [believed to be 1st June]. They did this without the permission of the Team Leader, and without his being aware of it.
Ddasaccident094, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident094, Hd-Aid
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The investigators determined that the victim was working in an area with barbed wire obstacles (that should have been cut and removed). After going around the wire and detecting again he got a reading. He did not mark the reading but squatted and started to prod with his bayonet, and detonated the mine (which was identified as a PMN from "found fragments".
Ddasaccident095, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident095, Hd-Aid
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The investigators determined that the victim did not centralise the reading point from his detector and "did not follow the marking procedures properly". He prodded while in a squatting position. They noted that the device was identified as a PMN (from "found fragments") and that the victim's helmet and bayonet were "destroyed".
Ddasaccident096, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident096, Hd-Aid
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The investigators determined that the victim was checking the boundary land and got a reading with his detector and investigated it with his prodder. He prodded in the squatting position but found nothing. As he stood up to recheck the position with his detector the device went off in front of him.
Ddasaccident097, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident097, Hd-Aid
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The investigators determined that the victim got a detector reading and started prodding in a prone position. As he removed loose soil he pulled a tripwire with his hand. A POMZ six metres away was initiated. The device was identified as a POMZ from "found fragments".
Ddasaccident098, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident098, Hd-Aid
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The investigators determined that the two victims found a "UXO" fuze while working in a bushy area.
Ddasaccident099, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident099, Hd-Aid
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The investigators determined that the victim was marking the cleared area up to a mine he had uncovered and which was awaiting detonation. It was near the end of the day so he wanted to go off duty after the found mine was destroyed. He dropped a stone close (25cm) to the found mine and the impact detonated another mine close by. His visor was up at the time, so his face was unprotected. The mine was identified as a PMN [presumably by inference].
Ddasaccident100, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident100, Hd-Aid
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The investigators determined that the minefield was old and the mines had fallen and become buried. The victim did not mark the detector reading point before investigating with a pick, so triggered the mine which was identified as a POMZ from "fragments found". The victim's pick and helmet were damaged.
Ddasaccident102, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident102, Hd-Aid
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The investigators determined that the victim was clearing the dry bed of a lake [this appears to conflict with "hillside"] and prodded to investigate an area that the dog had indicated. He used his detector then investigated the reading with a pick. The mine was identified as a PMN (from "found fragments"). The victim's pick handle and his visor were damaged. The victim walked out of mined area unaided.
Ddasaccident103, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident103, Hd-Aid
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The investigators determined that the victim was clearing a breaching lane bordered by barbed wire. When the wire got in the way too much, he stopped work to pull it aside. In pulling it aside he stepped outside the cleared area and trod on the mine. The mine was believed to be a PMN (from "found fragments") but there was concern expressed that the mine was "an MS3 (anti-lift device)" at the time. The victim's visor was damaged.
Ddasaccident104, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident104, Hd-Aid
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The investigators determined that the victim returned to his breaching lane after the short break and accidentally walked beyond the area he had cleared before the break, where he stepped on a mine. He may have not marked the end of his work properly. The device was identified as a PMN (from "found fragments").
Ddasaccident105, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident105, Hd-Aid
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The victim had been a deminer for seven years. It was five months since his last revision course and 35 days since his last leave. The demining group reported that the victim was digging with a pick when suddenly a PMN mine exploded.
Ddasaccident106, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident106, Hd-Aid
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The investigators determined that the victim was clearing inside a collapsed building. The mines were probably laid on the roof, which had fallen in, so may have been in any position in the ground. The mine was identified as a PMN-2 (from "found fragments"). The victim's visor shattered and a photograph showed jagged fractures and little evidence of blast impact. [This damage implies a twisting force on a brittle plastic, indicating that the visor was probably raised, so explaining the facial injuries.] The deminer's pick was also damaged.
Ddasaccident107, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident107, Hd-Aid
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The investigators determined that the victim got a reading on a "hand grenade or its wire" and his partner came to investigate the reading with a long handled shovel. When he started to "cut/remove the bushes, safety pin of the hand grenade got out". The deminer ran away and after a few seconds the grenade exploded. The device was identified as a hand grenade from "found fragments".
Ddasaccident108, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident108, Hd-Aid
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The victim was injured when a farmer drove a tractor into an uncleared area close to where he was working. The deminer went to warn the tractor driver when the tractor ran over a PMN (identified from "found fragments") and the deminer suffered small facial and left eye injuries.
Ddasaccident109, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident109, Hd-Aid
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The investigators determined that the victim was walking in an area that had been cleared three days previously by his own party as he made his way from the minefield at the end of the working day. He trod on a PMN mine that had been missed [presumably identified by inference]. A photograph showed a visor, which had been held in the victim's hand and had shattered. The remnants of the victim's boot were also shown.
Ddasaccident110, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident110, Hd-Aid
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The investigators determined that the victim had found bullets before and so impatiently used his pick vertically to investigate directly onto a detector reading. He was squatting when it occurred and had his visor raised. The deminer's pick was destroyed and his visor slightly damaged. They claim to have identified the mine as a PMN from "found fragments".
Ddasaccident111, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident111, Hd-Aid
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The demining group stated that the Section Leader was carrying a UXO fuze (BM 21 rocket fuze) for disposal when he dropped it and it went off. Three other victims were close by.
Ddasaccident112, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident112, Hd-Aid
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The investigators determined that the victim was pulling a wire obstacle out of the way when he accidentally stepped into an uncleared area and trod on a PMN [presumably identified by inference].
Ddasaccident113, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident113, Hd-Aid
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The investigators determined that the room being worked in had been cleared by the back-hoe but it had not gone deep enough to uncover the mine. Victim No.1 was using the detector and got a signal but he thought it was a fragment because the back-hoe had cleared the area, so he investigated it by using the pick directly onto the reading. The mine was identified as a PMN [presumably by inference]. The victim's pick was “destroyed” and his visor damaged.
Ddasaccident114, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident114, Hd-Aid
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The investigators determined that the victim was squatting to prod with a bayonet and applied too much pressure. He used the presence of bamboo to explain why he squatted to prod. The mine was identified as a PMN from "found fragments". His visor was shattered in the accident and his bayonet was "lost".
Evaluation Of The Mine Clearance Programme In Afghanistan, Gichd
Evaluation Of The Mine Clearance Programme In Afghanistan, Gichd
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This report, prepared by two independent experts at the request of the Personal Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations in Afghanistan and Pakistan, contains the experts' conclusions. They reviewed all aspects of the mine action programme in Afghanistan and showed particular interest to the impact and cost effectiveness of the programme. The experts also examined whether the programme was technically appropriate.
Ddasaccident002, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident002, Hd-Aid
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The accident occurred near a former Soviet hill post. The post had been subject to frequent night attack so the Russians had installed "listening devices" in a ring around the hill as an early warning system. The devices were "briefcase sized" and buried, protected against weather by plastic sheets. They were known to be protected by MS3 mines and the demining group, having no explosives for detonation in situ, had the policy of pulling the devices remotely. In all previous cases, pulling had resulted in a detonation of the MS3 mine or mines, activated by pressure-release. The listening devices were …