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Ddasaccident474, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident474, Hd-Aid
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The deminer was clearing a lane of the minefield (69270024) when he initiated a mine with his Heavy rake and the solidified layer of soil [crust] slid onto the mine. He did this by raking in the site and trying to remove the solidified layer. The mine was approximately 5cm deep and set into hard baked soil.
Ddasaccident444, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident444, Hd-Aid
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On 29 Oct 06 an accident involving a staff member of KEC (The Indian contractor currently engaged to refurbish the power-line) detonated a PMN2 AP whilst he was excavating at internal base of Tower No 60. Towers 60 and 62 are located in what was addressed as MF Code 01-0103-11-041 during the 1996 clearance. The [name removed] survey data of the time corroborates the information supplied by Mr [name removed] that some towers were considered clear and others were considered to be mined.
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 …
Ddasaccident486, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident486, Hd-Aid
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On 11.11.06 in the [International demining NGO] task No (1384) located in Bedak village of Gul Dam district of Kabul province suddenly a mine exploded in the lane of [the Victim] deminer who have the insurance No.3001 at 0730 hrs in the morning. At the same time the report of the accident was reported to the supervisor of the site and the Field doctor. Then the medics and the near by party started to help the injured person. After the completion of the First Aid at 0850 hrs in the morning they moved the injured person to the Emergency hospital …
Ddasaccident450, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident450, Hd-Aid
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The deminer was working in squatting position by portable shovel and was fully dressed with PPE while the accident happened. During 10 minutes the three steps of medical first aid was applied on the victim by the team nurse in the site then he was shifted at 10:15 hrs to the Bagram Airbase Hospital. Transfer of the victim from site to the hospital took 10 minutes and at 10:25 the victim was admitted to the hospital. For the time being the patient is under treatment in Miwand Governmental Hospital. The victim has just one trauma in his right hand. His …
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.
Ddasaccident489, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident489, Hd-Aid
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At 0915hrs on 14 Oct 06 whilst conducting clearance using the [International demining NGO] standard excavation drill at [International demining NGO] task H/1397, deminer [the Victim] of [International demining NGO] Manual Clearance Team 47 suffered fatal injuries as a result of detonating a PMN-2 AP mine.
Ddasaccident529, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident529, Hd-Aid
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Details of this accident have been withheld by the demining NGO that employed the Victim. A spreadsheet including the Victim’s name and very brief details of the accident was made available in 2007. Some detail can be inferred from the information made available. For example, the fact that six people were injured during excavation of a small AP blast mine implies that safety distances were being ignored and field discipline was low. The main Victim also suffered head injuries that indicate that his head protection and visor were not being worn.
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
Ddasaccident475, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident475, Hd-Aid
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At 06:55 Hrs one of the deminers of No-3 section [the Victim] while working in lane No-7 hit a mine on the top and resulted in a mine blast and he sustained SUPERFICIAL WOUNDS IN LEFT LOWER ARM, LEFT FEMUR, LEFT SIDE OF OVERHEAD AND LEFT CHIN .
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.
Ddasaccident491, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident491, Hd-Aid
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The deminer stated that the two mines that he had found earlier that day had only been 5cm deep, and that he did not expect to find another mine so close to the last one [even though the previous three had been with 2 metres of each other], or so deep; he therefore assumed that the signal was not a mine. He thinks that the mine was deeper than 10cm below the surface. He accepts that he may have exerted too much pressure whilst excavating.
Ddasaccident477, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident477, Hd-Aid
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A [Demining group] Manual Team One, deminer hit a No.10 AP mine from the top that resulted in a mine blast. The deminer suffered no injuries. He was wearing his protective Vest and Goggles. [Photographs of both Victim and PPE showed no damage.] The tines of the heavy rake were bent.
Ddasaccident478, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident478, Hd-Aid
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A [Demining group] Manual Team One, deminer hit a No.10 AP mine from the top that resulted in a mine blast. The deminer suffered no injuries. He was wearing his protective Vest and Goggles. [Photographs of both Victim and PPE showed no damage.] The tines of the heavy rake were bent.
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.
Ddasaccident476, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident476, Hd-Aid
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At 11:40 Hrs one of the deminers of No-4 section [the Victim] while working in lane No-6, hit a mine on the top and resulted in a mine blast and he sustained minor injury in his right arm and eyes were filled with loose sand.
Ddasaccident556, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident556, Hd-Aid
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At approximately 10:22 08 July 2006 a demining accident occurred in the North Western area of A6/A4 mine line. A suspected PMN-2 detonated resulting in injuries to [the Victim], who sustained lacerations to his right hand/wrist area, and minor abrasions to right lower leg.
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.
Ddasaccident527, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident527, Hd-Aid
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Date and country. [Name removed] - Fractured skull, head/facial injuries. Mine explosion - No.4A a/p mine. Mine exploded during excavation. Excavating on steep terrain believed possibly a former earth slide, falling rocks etc. could have caused a disturbance of the mine leading to a severely decreased activation force.
Ddasaccident453, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident453, Hd-Aid
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Based the [Demining Group] OPS Officer verbal report the injured Deminer was during the prodding /excavation at Task No 1182 located in Lataband village of Talucian district to initiating the Anti Personal AP mine when the prodder touched with a sensitive part of this old buried AP mine and blow up, as per the explanations of OPS Officer the deminer was well [protected] with PPE that is cause he has not received a serious injury. [The deminer may lose a hand.]
Ddasaccident498, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident498, Hd-Aid
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On 03 July 2006 the team as usual started operation at 06:00 am. Deminer[the Victim] a deminer of section 1, party 1 also started to work as other members of the team at that day. At the outset of operation while the deminer was working on a located signal a PMN-2 exploded in the result the deminer was seriously wounded.
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.
Ddasaccident551, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident551, Hd-Aid
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On 24 May 2006, at 1045 hrs a PMN-02 detonated on [the Victim] deminer of MDG-18 while he was excavating a located signal. The located signal was a dispositioned PMN--2 mine. The deminer received multiple minor injuries on his face and also soils and smoke entered the eyes of the injured deminer. All steps of medical first aid were applied on the victim by the team medic. His eyes were washed by saline serum in the site as the soils and the dusts were removed from his eyes by the team medic then he was shifted to the Bagram Air …
Ddasaccident492, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident492, Hd-Aid
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Based the [International demining NGO] OPS Officer verbal report the injured Deminer was during the prodding /excavation at Task No 1144 in Khoja Kamal e Wali area to initiating the unexploded Garnet when the prodder touched with a sensitive part of this buried fuse and blow up, as per the explanations of OPS Officer he was recognized the initiation of fuse for explosion when take a special sound for its readiness so Deminer started to gotten away when the garnet exploded and the fragments beached to his body specially in his hand , shoulder and leg.
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.
Ddasaccident454, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident454, Hd-Aid
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At first time this area had been surveyed by [Survey group] on 06 April 1997. The survey team had divided this area to four minefields (MF# 353, 387, 392, and 395). The minefields of this area were cleared by [Mine Dog group] at the same year. After clearance of these tasks by [Mine dogs], in this area about 9 accidents on local people have been occurred of which two accidents has been recorded, investigated by AMAC, Kabul investigation team and reported to UNMACA of 05 April 2006. One accident occurred on 12-12-2005 at 11:00 am, as a result an Eight …
Ddasaccident455, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident455, Hd-Aid
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At first time this area had been surveyed by [Survey group] Sur-09 on 06 April 1997. The survey team had divided this area to four minefields (MF# 353, 387, 392, and 395). The minefields of this area were cleared by [Mine Dog group] at the same year. After clearance of these tasks by [Mine Dog group], in this area about 9 accidents on local people have been occurred of which two accidents has been recorded, investigated by AMAC, Kabul investigation team and reported to UNMACA of 05 April 2006. One accident occurred on 12-12-2005 at 11:00 am, as a result …