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Ddasaccident062, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident062, Hd-Aid
Global CWD Repository
The report gave a timetable of events which indicated that the team started work at 06:00 and the accident occurred at 07:05 when the victim "prodded onto" a PPM-2. By 07:09 the victim had been carried to a safe area by two colleagues and was receiving treatment from the medic. The deminer "took deep blast wound to the area between the thumb and forefinger" of his left hand. The medic did not administer painkillers but "packs wound on the hand".
H.L.Hunley Assessment Expedition Fieldwork Completed, Christopher F. Amer, Steven D. Smith, Jonathan Leader
H.L.Hunley Assessment Expedition Fieldwork Completed, Christopher F. Amer, Steven D. Smith, Jonathan Leader
Faculty & Staff Publications
No abstract provided.
Progress Report From The "Pumpkin" Site, Tommy Charles
Progress Report From The "Pumpkin" Site, Tommy Charles
Faculty & Staff Publications
Accompanying this article is a sidebar, also by Tommy Charles, 'Petroglyph and Rock Shelter Survey'.
Ddasaccident065, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident065, Hd-Aid
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At around 11:10 the victim got a detector reading and began "prodding and excavating the ground using a bayonet" held in his left hand. A PPM-2 mine detonated. The victim was knocked backward "about" two metres by the blast and was lying partly in an uncleared area. He stood up quickly, leaving his visor which had been "blown away and broken by the blast". The victim received first aid and arrived at the field hospital at 11:20.
Ddasaccident081, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident081, Hd-Aid
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The victim prodded onto a mine at 07:55. There was a 45cm gap between the accident site and the "recognised face of clearance", indicating that the victim was prodding ahead of his end of lane marker. It was difficult to determine whether the victim had prodded the ground up to the site of the explosion
Ddasaccident325, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident325, Hd-Aid
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Despite the absence of a paramedic, [the Victim] who has the position of Team Leader in the organisation, decided to commence work the morning of 24th May 1996 on the security strip. At this stage the security strip had a large number of PMN-2 anti-personnel mines exposed by the machines and was very dangerous. He entered the security strip at approximately 12:00 and approximately 30 minutes later a muffled explosion was heard inside the strip.
Ddasaccident032, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident032, Hd-Aid
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Victim No.1 was working downhill without his detector and was two metres in front of the end of his end-of-lane marker when the accident occurred at 10:55. He pulled a tripwire and initiated an OZM-4 that was a metre away. He suffered traumatic amputation of his left food. Two other deminers were slightly injured with single fragments to the elbow and chin. The Platoon Commander ordered a helicopter from Maputo. The platoon paramedic gave first aid. amputation of his left foot.
Ddasaccident068, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident068, Hd-Aid
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At 10:05 the victim located a PPM-2 at the head of his lane. He called the Team Leader who marked the mine to be destroyed it at the end of the day. The victim and his partner then moved to another lane. When they changed roles (resting/demining) just before 10:30, the victim went back to the lane where he had found the mine. His partner saw that he had taken off his visor and shouted a warning to him. The victim ignored him and started probing a metre from the uncovered mine in the belief that a second mine had …
Ddasaccident178, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident178, Hd-Aid
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At approximately 09:00 the victim detonated a PMN while investigating a detector signal with his prodder. He sustained a traumatic amputation of his left thumb and forefinger, grazing to his left upper arm and to the lower half of his face, and "a slight laceration to the cornea of his left eye" that caused 50% blindness in this eye. He was also bleeding from both ears. The victim was wearing body armour and a visor.
Ddasaccident069, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident069, Hd-Aid
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In a copy of a FAX dated 6th March 1996 to another company (presumed to have been the victims' direct employers) the accident is recorded as "two members of our North Team were seriously injured in a landmine detonation while they were demining the bridge site over the river Lui". It goes on "both men are in a serious but fortunately stable condition. One man has regrettably lost the use of his eyes whilst the prognosis for the other man is slightly better".
The Pumpkin Site Update, Tommy Charles
The Pumpkin Site Update, Tommy Charles
Faculty & Staff Publications
No abstract provided.
Pastwatch - March 1996, South Carolina Institute Of Archaeology And Anthropology--University Of South Carolina
Pastwatch - March 1996, South Carolina Institute Of Archaeology And Anthropology--University Of South Carolina
SCIAA Newsletter - Legacy & PastWatch
Contents:
Introducing Chairman Harper.....p. 1
The Pumpkin Site Update.....p. 2
Director's Vista.....p. 3
Central America Trip.....p. 4
Santa Elena Update.....p. 6
Allendale Expedition.....p. 7
Underwater Archaeology Projects.....p. 8
Ddasaccident179, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident179, Hd-Aid
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The primary cause of this accident is listed as a "Field control inadequacy" because the victims were close together when the device initiated which indicates a breach of safety distance SOPs that went uncorrected.
Archaeology At Santa Elena: Doorway To The Past, Stanley South
Archaeology At Santa Elena: Doorway To The Past, Stanley South
Popular Series
This publication, published by the University of South Carolina's South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, is the second issue of the Institute's Popular Series.
Contents:
Table of Contents.....p. iii
Acknowledgements.....p. v
Preface by Chester B. DePratter.....p. vii
A Spanish Colonial Overview.....p. 1
The Search for Santa Elena Begins (1978).....p. 7
The Sampling Project Begins (1979).....p. 11
Fort San Felipe is Found (1979).....p. 17
The Sampling Project Concludes (1979).....p. 19
A Hut Ruin Is Discovered (1979).....p. 21
Santa Elena is Found (1981).....p. 25
Exploring Fort San Marcos (1979).....p. 35
The War at Fort San Felipe in 1576.....p. 39
A …