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Ddasaccident682, Hd-Aid

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At 07:25 am the 21st of June 2009 while am working on 9 o’clock mine in section 4 Sabha 8, I was following all the procedures in the manual clearing and after I finished the first box I used the light rake first and when it was not responding to the hard ground I turned to the heavy rake to release the upper layer of the sand and grass, I pulled using the heavy rake then the accident happened suddenly while am working.

Ddasaccident734, Hd-Aid

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[Demining group] is subcontracted by US-DOD for mine clearance in Bagram Air Field. On 15 June 2009, when the [Demining group] US-DOD related team was working on a BAC task inside the BAF, experienced an uncontrolled detonation. The accident happened when [the Victim] the deminer was excavating a detected signal using a small pick; he found a metal plate and decided to excavate beneath the metal plate, during the excavation drill his excavation tool might touched the mine and caused it to go off.

Ddasaccident633, Hd-Aid

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AF/2008/00324/H4533-13 is an anti-personnel mine contaminated area laid by the government forces during the Russian invasion in Afghanistan. The mines are laid in 2 rows as a belt surrounding Kandak-e-921 Sarhadi in order to secure their positions from the attacks of Mujahedeen. [Demining group] DT-18 was tasked for the clearance of mentioned area, on 9th of June 2009 at 07:55 am deminer [Victim No.1] was working in his clearance lane excavating a detected signal, his prodder touched a mine and caused it to explode. According to the investigation report the signal was not pinpointed correctly and the deminer has used …

Ddasaccident757, Hd-Aid

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On 07 June 1035 hours [the Victim] the section leader of mentioned team stopped his deminer [Name removed] and started to work instead of him as the deminer was getting tired. He hit the top of a mine with his prodding tool so the accident occurred. There is a wound with regular edges on the forehead of section leader and some abrasions on his face and left eye. The PPE was used during the operation, but the visor was broken down by a forceful back out of excavation tool possibly the shovel and caused the injury to him. According to …

Ddasaccident610, Hd-Aid

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In the morning before we start working the team leader gave us the safety brief and work instructions then I started searching for missing mines in section 3 Sabha 8, I removed a 12 and 3 o’clock mines then started working on a 9 o’clock mine I found a squirrel house near the mine I’m working on and found 2 stones on the right and left of the squirrel house, I used the light rake to expose the stones and then used the heavy rake to move the soil and remove the stones I went more than 15 cm depth …

Ddasaccident706, Hd-Aid

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While the deminer try to recover one missing AP mine (M14) assigned for him by the team leader after grapping all the visible APs in the cluster and the central AT, the mine blasted 2.2 metres away from the deminer while searching the area with the heavy RAKE after pinpointing a signal using the metal detector.

Ddasaccident699, Hd-Aid

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According to the preliminary investigation the deminer approached to the mine using the proper procedure (15 cm from the side and front), but the depth was less than 15 cm, and the mine was deeply buried (about 18 cm).

Ddasaccident711, Hd-Aid

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On 27 May 2009 at 0840 hrs [the Victim] the section leader of [Demining group] DT-16 entered to a mined area which was not covered in current MF, stepped on a mine and caused the accident. According to the investigation report the section leader left the site for admin area in order to bring painted rocks for the marking purpose, on the way back from the admin area he wanted to use the shortest way, entered to unsafe area and the accident occurred. He had taken off his PPE and visor. As a result of accident the victim has lost …

Ddasaccident683, Hd-Aid

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While the deminer try to recover one missing AP mine (M14) assigned for him by the team leader after grabbing all the visible APs in the cluster and the central AT the mine blasted 2.2 metres away from the deminer while searching the area with the heavy RAKE after pinpointing a signal using the metal detector.

Ddasaccident744, Hd-Aid

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On 11 May 2009 at 09:20 the de-miner [the Victim] was excavating a detected signal in his clearance lane, he stroked the top of a PMN2 mine with his bayonet and the accident happened. As the ground profile is uneven and the accident occurred in an area where the extra soil is brought by seasonal floods and the depth of mine was around 25cm. The deminer failed to go deeper as per procedure and discover the mine properly, so he stroked the mine and caused the accident. According to the investigation report and the pictures of victim deminer the visor …

Ddasaccident748, Hd-Aid

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On 10 May 2009 at 10:35 [the Victim] the deminer of [Demining group] DT-02 was excavating on a detected signal in his clearance lane where he hit the top of an anti-personnel mine by bayonet and it caused the mine going off. The procedure of investigating a pinpointed signal was ignored by this deminer and he was working carelessly. As a result this accident the deminer got several injuries to different parts of body i.e. both hands and thighs. The deminer had only used the jacket of his PPE without skirt. If he would wear the skirt too, his lower …

Ddasaccident754, Hd-Aid

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On 07th of May at 10:00 hours the de-miner [the Victim] was working in his clearance lane excavating a detected signal by unsuitable excavation tool (Pick). He hit the top of mine with a pick and caused it to go off. According to the investigation report the signal was not pinpointed correctly and the de-miner has used his pick carelessly. As a result he sustained multiple superficial injuries on his eyes, chest, Face, and both hands, the injured parts of the deminer body and his PPE clearly indicate that he had not used his PPE during operation. Because there is …

Ddasaccident760, Hd-Aid

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According to the investigation report and as seems from the pictures of scene, the deminer was working with a big shovel. On 19th of April 09 one of the MACCA operations assistant found the team using big shovel and raised a non-conformity report, but the team leader and then the operations officer of [Demining group] did not accept the non-conformity report. However the problem was showed to be solved during the re-audit visits, but in reality it had not been solved and consequently the accident occurred.

Ddasaccident677, Hd-Aid

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According to the preliminary investigation the incident happened due to individual mistake while the deminer trying to recover an invisible mine and to prevent like incident in the future all invisible Mines would be investigated using the metal detector.

Ddasaccident592, Hd-Aid

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On the 21st of April 2009 an UNMAO QA Officer from the Juba Sub-Office whilst conducting distance and bearing checks during a completion QA for the handover of a cleared DA-SS-796 in Central Equatoria State suffered serious injuries after stepping on an AP mine resulting in the traumatic amputation of his right foot. The injured was transferred to UNMIS medical facilities in Juba where he was stabilized and subsequently transferred abroad for further medical treatment. The BOI determined that MDD assets had cleared the specific area of the accident and there were missed mine which resulted in the serious injury …

Ddasaccident622, Hd-Aid

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According to the preliminary investigation the incident is caused due an individual mistake that the deminer according to the SOP have to use first off all the Light RAKE to investigate the signal), then if there is a need to use the heavy RAKE he have to approach it 15 cm from the side and 15 cm from the front with a 15 cm depth (which was not followed properly) and instead of that he hack the mine from the centre of the signal.

Ddasaccident716, Hd-Aid

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[The Victim] was working in one of the closest lanes to MDU, therefore, he also stopped the operations and wanted to keep safety distance with operating machine, he crossed the boundary of minefield and entered to a suspected area, he stepped on a mine there, and the accident happened. The consequences of this accident were traumatic amputation of left leg plus some superficial injuries on right leg and right hand fingers of deminer.

Ddasaccident608, Hd-Aid

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According to the preliminary investigation the incident is caused due to a pressure applied to the mine from the heavy RAKE (the excavation tool) used by the deminer and the deminer didn’t expect to find a mine in that spot with that depth and may like accident could be avoided by using the metal detector to locate the non visible mine before using the standard RAKE drill.

Ddasaccident602, Hd-Aid

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While the deminer trying to recover an AP M14 mine using the heavy RAKE he applied a pressure in the pressure plate of a non visible M14 which in turn activated that mine in a depth of about 5-7 cm

Ddasaccident781, Hd-Aid

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On 20 January 2009 while de-miner [the Victim] was working in his clearance lane excavating a detected signal, his bayonet stroked the top of a PMN mine and caused it to explode. According to the investigation report the de-miner has not maintained and considered the default clearance depth during the excavation and used his bayonet carelessly, therefore, caused the accident. Unfortunately the victim was not fully dressed with PPE and his visor was up during the accident. Thus he has got several injuries on his face, legs and different parts of his body.

Ddasaccident727, Hd-Aid

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On 19 January 2009 at 10:15 10 hours while [the Victim] was busy in excavating a detected signal, the explosion occurred due to PMN mine and caused the accident. Unfortunately as he was not fully dressed with PPE, therefore, he has got severe injuries on his face and lost his both eyes and some minor injuries on his hand and leg. According to the investigation report, it seems that he was working with pick instead of standard excavation tool and started excavation directly from the centre of the signal.

Ddasaccident739, Hd-Aid

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A cluster bomb left over from the Israel-Hizbullah war in 2006 wounded a member of the demining team [Demining group] in south Lebanon on Friday. The National News Agency said [the Victim], 26, was wounded when the bomb exploded near the southern Lebanese town of Arabsaleem

Ddasaccident647, Hd-Aid

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According to the preliminary investigation the incident is caused due to a pressure applied to the mine from the heavy RAKE (the excavation tool) used by the deminer and the deminer didn’t expect to find a mine in that spot with that depth and may like accident could be avoided by using the metal detector to locate the non visible mine before using the standard RAKE drill.

Ddasaccident617, Hd-Aid

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According to the preliminary investigation the incident is caused due to a pressure applied to the mine from the heavy RAKE (the excavation tool) used by the deminer and the deminer didn’t expect to find a mine in that spot with that depth and may like accident could be avoided by using the metal detector to locate the non visible mine before using the standard RAKE drill.

Apopo Annual Report 2009, Apopo

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In 2009, APOPO has made tremendous progress in reaching its mission to become the Centre of Excellence in detection rats technology and achieving social impact for underprivileged communities and people in Africa.

Implementation of the strategic plan and transformation process, which was started in 2008, has improved both APOPO’s internal structure and operational outputs. These changes have strengthened the management team and fostered the formation of strategic partnerships that will provide the basis to further enhance the impact of APOPO’s life-saving technology and facilitate the sustainable growth of the organization.

However, the most tangible results of this year can be …

Mine Action Strategy (2009-2013) - Azerbaijan, Gichd

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The mine/UXO problem in Azerbaijan is mainly resulted from the military aggression of Armenia over the territory

of Azerbaijan. Although the hostilities had ceased in May 1994, a permanent peace is yet to be achieved

(negotiations are underway with the assistance of OSCE Minsk Group, chaired by the USA, France and Russia).

Despite this, the rehabilitation of accessible war-torn areas are continuing since 1996.

The Scope of the Problem in this publication refers to problems in the accessible war torn territories. This is where

the presence of mine/UXOs are impacting livelihoods of population and impeding development and rehabilitation

efforts of …

2009 Colombia Humanitarian Demining Planning Workshop, Cisr/Jmu

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From 9 to 12 June 2009, representatives of the Colombian government’s humanitarian mine action office and the Humanitarian Demining Department of the Colombian military met to devise a way forward in planning for the expansion and enhancement of the country’s program to eradicate landmines from the national territory.

The Mine Action Information Center at James Madison University facilitated the Colombia Humanitarian Demining Planning Workshop (Taller de Planificación del Desminado Humanitario en Colombia) in Bogotá, Colombia. The workshop was sponsored by the U.S. Department of State’s Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement, and was attended by representatives from the U.S. and …

Ddasaccident662, Hd-Aid

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While I was checking on deminers I saw the deminer [Name removed] working on his group on 12 o’clock mine I asked him what’s the problem? He said he was looking for a missing mine and he can’t find it, I went to help him and when I dig twice using the heavy rake a mine was blasted in my face, I sat on the ground and the deminer, team leader and the team section came and took me to the medic team on the ambulance stretcher out of the field.