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Ddasaccident733, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident733, Hd-Aid
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On 15 March 2010 at 08:55 hrs while [the Victim] was busy in excavation of a detected signal, suddenly the accident happened. As a result the deminer got severe injuries on his face, eyes and his right hand.
Ddasaccident645, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident645, Hd-Aid
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When we arrived to the site the team leader gave us the morning safety brief and he warned us to be very alert about as we work on mine clusters, at 07:30 am I entered my site and the team leader came to direct me to make more space in the clearing area of missing mines, he told me to move to lane one later after finishing my work at the missing mine, lane one is a mixed mine area( has both types of mines M15 and M14 ) and asked me to clear M14 mines because the anti tank …
Ddasaccident678, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident678, Hd-Aid
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The Deminer was trying to check signal using the heavy rake, the M14 mine was laid in a grassy solid ground full of grass root and stones, the deminer tried to drew the grass by the heavy rake, the roots of the grass push the pressure plate of the mine, that cause the mine to blast.
Ddasaccident666, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident666, Hd-Aid
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The deminer was trying to clear the AP mine in a cluster, there was no signal due to the depth of the mines, she asked the team leader to help her in finding the signal, he tried and started to excavate until he found signal, he located and excavated over the signal until he reached 20 cm depth at that time he hit the M14 mine and caused the detonation
Ddasaccident653, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident653, Hd-Aid
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The Deminer today was officiated as a team leader due to the absence of the team leader. He took one deminer tools and started to work himself in one of the remaining cluster in his section. While he was using the grass cutter to cut the grass in front of the base stick he hit the barely covered M14 mine by the grass cutter which caused the mine to initiate.
Ddasaccident599, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident599, Hd-Aid
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After I recovered the main mine (AT M19) and AP mine M14 (12 o’clock direction) I started to recover AP mine M14 (3 o’clock direction) and after a while, I heard a signal, then I applied the standard procedures to investigate the signal and during my approach to the centre of the signal by the heavy rake, AP mine blew up and I did not fell down on the ground and I did not feel any type of pain, then I saw the TL coming to my site and I was just waiting for him to come, after TL reached …