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Ddasaccident438, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident438, Hd-Aid
Global CWD Repository
Altogether 75 boosters were collected from these piles during the work day and moved to the mine collection point. At 13:20 hours, he was counting the total amount of the found P4 boosters before being transported away from the minefield, to be later disposed in a central demolition site. While handling one of the P4 boosters, it exploded in his hands.
Ddasaccident505, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident505, Hd-Aid
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There is only one house located in the Task No. 092 the owner of the house is Mr. Abdul Ahmad who has emigrated to Iran. For the time being his nephew [Name removed] is living in the house. On 14.02.06, while he was shoveling the house plats for planting vegetable, discovered an YM1 mine. The coordinate of the mine location is N=3496564 and E= 06932869. Location of the mine from entrance gate of the house is 295 degree/22 meters. Depth of the mine from original surface of the ground was about 6 cm while about 15 cm extra soil on …
Ddasaccident535, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident535, Hd-Aid
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On the 10th December 2005 deminer [the Victim] was carrying out clearance in Minefield 14 Bisqua using the raking method. Whilst raking the earth in the front of his lane a P-4 mine detonated.
Ddasaccident579, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident579, Hd-Aid
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The deminer was doing clearance around an accident site where an AP mine blew off the tire of a car on the 23rd November. The soil in the area is hard and there are lots of metal pieces in the ground. The mine was detonated by the deminer during excavation most likely due to incorrect procedures. The blast went through a gap between the visor and the vest and caused injuries to the deminers face. Also the thumb on his right hand received injuries. The leather gloves the deminer was wearing saved him from worse injuries.
Ddasaccident525, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident525, Hd-Aid
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The primary cause of this accident is listed as “Deminer inattention” because the Victim slipped into the cleared area. Questions arise about the suitability of his footwear. The secondary cause is listed as a “Management control inadequacy” because the management of the demining group declined to make the accident details available. Although this is sometimes done to protect the Victims, in this case the Victim’s name was among the limited detail made available. It is possible that the managers have chosen to avoid transparency because they are afraid that the circumstances of the accident would reflect badly on their organisation.
Ddasaccident523, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident523, 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 details can be inferred from the information released. For example, the face injury implies that the victim’s visor was not being worn in the correct manner.
Ddasaccident522, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident522, Hd-Aid
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The primary cause of this accident is listed as “Unavoidable” because it is possible that the Victim was working properly in the way that he was trained, and that he was also using a long and blast resistant tool when the accident occurred.
Ddasaccident578, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident578, Hd-Aid
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Initial reports state that [the victim of the first accident] was working in his lane when he initiated an unknown item. The size of the blast would indicate a partial or fuse assembly. A few seconds later, a larger explosion was heard, where [the Victim of this accident] had moved from his lane to assist [the first Victim]. [The Victim of this accident] moved using the shortest possible route, through uncleared area.
Ddasaccident524, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident524, 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 details can be inferred from the information released. For example, the severe facial injury indicates that a visor was not worn by the Victim.
Ddasaccident755, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident755, Hd-Aid
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Saturday, 7 May 2005, at 10:20 a.m. local time, [Demining group] suffered a mine accident in the manual clearance teams deployed at the Nhaapua site, Chibabava district, Sofala Province, Mozambique. A deminer, working in his lane detonated a AP Gyata mine while conducting manual clearance.
Ddasaccident521, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident521, Hd-Aid
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This accident is classed as a “Missed-mine accident” because the mine was presumably either missed during survey or during clearance. It is presumed that demining group included it in their spreadsheet of demining accidents because the area should have been cleared.
Ddasaccident537, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident537, Hd-Aid
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Deminer [the Victim] started demining in his lane no. 47. He set off a P4 MK1 antipersonnel mine with his right foot by stepping on it 07:10 am. Explosion occurred 2 meters from the end of the 27 meter long cleared lane in already cleared area. Deminer fell down to his front. He was not injured except for small scratch in his little finger due to falling. His boots did not suffer any damage.
Ddasaccident540, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident540, Hd-Aid
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Deminer [the Victim] used his rake in normal manner. He set off a P4 MK1 antipersonnel mine with his 2-tooth heavy rake. Heavy rake bended but remained in one piece in the blast. Deminer was in perfect health and didn’t get bruises nor other minor injuries.
Ddasaccident533, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident533, Hd-Aid
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At 09.10hrs on the 22nd of September 2004, deminer [the Victim] was carrying out manual clearance using the prodding method on the northern side of Minefield 0011 at Ina Guuxaa. Whilst excavating earth at the front of his lane, he inadvertently detonated what is suspected to have been a P-4 anti personnel mine.
Ddasaccident416, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident416, Hd-Aid
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There is no definite explanation for how the incident happened. According to deminer, he used his tools slowly and correctly letting the rake to come towards himself by its own weight while pulling. Visual appearance of the incident lane supports this claim. Deminer’s raking tracks are visible, 50 cm in length and symmetrical.
Ddasaccident425, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident425, Hd-Aid
Global CWD Repository
[Name excised] and [name excised] will be sending you a very detailed report in the next few days. After seeing the site and the deminer I am going to ask him to buy my lottery ticket in the future!!. He was extremely lucky. He detonated an M4 mine 200g HE less than arms length away. He sustained a broken thumb and lacerations of his first two fingers and his face was badly bruised due to the visor hitting him due to the blast effect.
Ddasaccident415, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident415, Hd-Aid
Global CWD Repository
Experienced deminer uses his rake slowly and in a correct manner according to SOP. Suddenly he sets off an antipersonnel mine with his heavy rake. Heavy rake breaks into two pieces in the blast. Deminer remains in perfect health and doesn’t have bruises nor other minor injuries.
Ddasaccident534, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident534, Hd-Aid
Global CWD Repository
The incident occurred whilst Deminer [the Victim] was carrying out clearance using the raking method in Lane 9, MF 14, Bisqua. The Investigation team came to the conclusion that the AP mine was disturbed previously by the roots of a tree which is situated approximately 1 meter away from the point of detonation.
Ddasaccident414, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident414, Hd-Aid
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Experienced deminer sets up an antipersonnel mine with his heavy rake. There are two one inch thick bush roots lying horizontally in depth of four centimetres, twenty five centimetres from each other. Antipersonnel mine was situated between the roots. Instead of prodding the spot between the roots, deminer continued raking with heavy rake.
Ddasaccident532, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident532, Hd-Aid
Global CWD Repository
On the 15th of August 2004 an accident occurred in MF011 in Guuxaa during clearance. [The Victim] was carrying out clearance using the rake method when he detonated a P-4 Anti Personnel Mine.
Ddasaccident424, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident424, Hd-Aid
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Team No 2 was working to establish the location and dorecetion of the Mine Strip No 2 in the minefield HM-5 in area Thomaspuri. [The victim] was the Team Leader of Team No 2. One sub team of Team No , under supervision of [the victim] was clearing the working lane. Deminer [name excised] (mine detector operator) located a metal/mine signal. He immediately marked the location and informed the Team Leader. Then he withdrew to a safe distance. [The victim] Team Leader approached the marked location, searched for and recovered an anti-personnel mine P4 Mk1. He tried to neutralize the …
Ddasaccident457, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident457, Hd-Aid
Global CWD Repository
[The Victim] started the work in lane 1. He worked near a metal barrel half buried in the ground, 1.6 metres from the fence. Before the accident he cleared 2 m2. He wore his PPE and had the necessary tools. He had been removing the undergrowth and surface metal pieces ahead of the base stick. He had been searching with his metal detector and had used the prodder and a trowel. When he worked only with a prodder, he investigated the whole area ahead of the base stick where the vegetation had been removed. Just before the explosion he had …
Ddasaccident459, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident459, Hd-Aid
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The investigators found that the main cause of the accident was “wanton violation of technical and safety procedures proscribed in the SOPs of the organisation and in the National Standards of B&H”. For this reason the primary cause of the accident is listed as a “Management control inadequacy”. So many basic safety rules were being breached at a site where there was known to be a fragmentation mine threat that the conditions must have been known to senior management. The secondary cause is listed as a “Field control inadequacy” because the field managers allowed safety distances and PPE rules to …
Ddasaccident417, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident417, Hd-Aid
Global CWD Repository
The BOI could not establish conclusively why the accident took place, as no eyewitnesses saw the incident at the time of the explosion. However, it was obvious that the deminer had his visor up at the time of the explosion. Damage and blast marks to the inside of the visor could only have accrued if the visor was up at the time of the explosion. The deminer insisted that the visor was down at the time of the explosion but could give no explanation for why the accident had taken place. It is the opinion of the BOI that the …
Ddasaccident536, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident536, Hd-Aid
Global CWD Repository
Antipersonnel Mine model P4 mark 1 exploded during mine-clearance in minefield LK-257, Katkovalam. Explosion took place 1,5 meters in front of [Demining group] deminer while he was raking the uncleared lane with heavy rake. Deminer fell backwards to his bottom and lost his hearing and vision for few minutes. His visor (head protection) was hit by little stones and fell off. Fragmentation vest (body protection) took some punches too. After 15 minutes he recovered to mentally and physically normal state. He did not have any wounds, bruises nor pain anywhere in medic’s full body inspection. Nevertheless, he was evacuated against …
Ddasaccident442, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident442, Hd-Aid
Global CWD Repository
The lane followed a P4 AP blast mine strip where [the Victim] had found three mines the previous day. On the morning of the accident [the Victim] had worked one half hour shift from 07.30 hrs to 08.00hrs before having breakfast from 08.00 hrs to 08.30 hrs. [The Victim] then started his second half hour shift at 08.30hrs, with his half section BD3. The accident took place at 08.40hrs, ten minutes into [the Victim]’s second half hour shift. At the time of the accident [the Victim] was using a heavy rake on the first phase of the three phase raking …
Ddasaccident413, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident413, Hd-Aid
Global CWD Repository
I am the section leader of Team 07 – 2 Southern Group at 10.15 while we all were at rest area on rest suddenly heard an explosion and saw smoke coming from close to bund. At once I went to the site of the explosion of the spot and I found the water tanker was on uncleared area and with no damage or injury. So I instructed to driver reverse the vehicle using the same track. Driver followed me.
Ddasaccident580, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident580, Hd-Aid
Global CWD Repository
[The Victim] left [Demining NGO] Camp to personally respond to the information provided by the two children regarding two No 4 anti-personnel landmines on the Umm Serdiba mountain. This was a known minefield and adjacent to a second known mountain also containing landmines in Umm Serdiba. [The Victim] attempted to neutralize two landmines instead of marking and reporting the mines in accordance with established procedures.
Ddasaccident412, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident412, Hd-Aid
Global CWD Repository
The deminer was working in his clearance lane using a heavy rake to excavate the ground. The ground was very hard and use of the light rake was limited. At approximately 08:55hrs an explosion occurred under the rake.”
Ddasaccident545, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident545, Hd-Aid
Global CWD Repository
On May 19, 2004 all deminers were called back to restart clearance operations on the minefield 603 in Darlaman after the first 10 minutes break. [The Victim] also went to his lane and started operations. Using the mine detector he found a signal and marked the area by a red marker. He was setting in kneeling position in an up hill and sloppy [sloping] portion of the field and while he had his personal protective suit and visor on started to prod the area using a bayonet and during the prodding he touched the mine and it went off.