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Ddasaccident625, Hd-Aid

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We took the safety brief before we start working from the team leader then we entered the field, through the 1st period of work I cleared 3 AP mines from the mixed cluster (AP, AT) in Jaber 1 area, on the 2nd period at 9:11 am I cleared a 3 o’clock mine then moved to 9 o’clock mine, while searching I heard a signal and marked it then looked for it using the light rake but because it’s a hard stony area I used the heavy rake then, while progressing 15 cm from the right side I pulled the rake …

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

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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 …

Ddasaccident593, Hd-Aid

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According to the investigation report the de-miner was using the scraper direct on the top of the detected signal causing it to go off. It was then found that the exploded item was a MUV fuse. As a result of the explosion, [MUV fuze] sustained injuries on his eyes, right side ear, arm and head; the injuries indicate that the de-miner was not using his visor properly.

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

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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

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 …

Ddasaccident661, Hd-Aid

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At 11:30 hrs on 15th Dec 2009, [the Victim] the Team Leader of the EOD -01 was working as a deminer and trying to identify the actual mined area. While he was excavating on a signal by a pick, he hit the mine and it caused to the accident. As [the Victim] was not well prepared and fully dressed with PPE, he has got severe injures to face, eyes and forehead.

Ddasaccident596, Hd-Aid

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The clearance operation on mentioned task was started by [Demining group] DT-12 on 1st of November 09. On 10th of November 09 at 07:40, while the second break period started, the team leader of the team asked a deminer for his scraper and then walked down to a clearance lane without informing any other team members of his intention. On 07:42 Team leader initiated a POMZ mine causing him to receive the injuries that led to his death. He ignored his job description and the [Demining group] SOPs. He may have been thinking that this POMZ is of no danger, …

Ddasaccident620, Hd-Aid

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On 5th Nov 2009 at 08:45 am deminer [Victim No.1] was working in his clearance lane: he was removing excavated soil from the target spot that suddenly his excavation tool touched a mine and caused it to go off. As a result of the accident, the deminer got severe injuries to his face, eyes and left hand (lost his one eye).

Ddasaccident708, Hd-Aid

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The 39-year-old [the Victim], a MACC member from Mozambique, died after an anti-tank mine exploded at approximately 8am yesterday in a minefield near Yeri, some 10 kilometres south-east of Nicosia.

Ddasaccident646, Hd-Aid

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On 11 Oct 2009 at 12:15 am while [the Victim] deminer was excavating a detected signal in his clearance lane, his bayonet hit top of an anti-personnel mine and caused it to go off. According to the investigation report, it seems that the deminer started the excavation drill directly from the centre of the detected signal by his bayonet and caused the mine to be exploded. The deminer had the PPE and visor but as the visor was not properly used so he got some superficial injuries on his face, eyes.

Ddasaccident641, Hd-Aid

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On 10 Oct 2009 at 11:20 hrs when [the Victim] deminer was working in his clearance lane with a pickaxe that suddenly an explosion happened. As per investigation report the deminer was using pickaxe instead of bayonet because the ground surface was hard. He started to prepare a trench by pickaxe from second reading marker for further investigation of the signal, but there was a stone in close vicinity of pinpointed spot and the deminer wanted to remove it, so his pickaxe might touched the PMN mine or the stone put extra pressure on the mine and the explosion happened. …

Ddasaccident613, Hd-Aid

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On 04 Oct 2009 at 08:35 hrs when [the Victim] deminer was working on a signal in his clearance lane using a pickaxe, he hit the mine on its top and caused it to go off. According to the investigation report the ground surface was hard and the deminer was using the pick without informing his section leader with a wrong procedure for excavation of the detected signal, and caused the mine to be exploded. As a result of the accident, the involve deminer got superficial injures on his face and body.

Ddasaccident701, Hd-Aid

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While the deminer was working in recovering one of the SMLs in Al Akaider 2 laid with 15 AP mines (M14) and after recovering 9 mines from the same SML and locating a signal in the predicted site for the 10th mine, the signal was strong and continuous which confused the deminer and there is no way to pin point an M14 mine at that area, the deminer start excavating the area from a depth for 40 cm using the heavy RAKE , the soil at that area hard that the deminer was using the RAKE in a hacking motion …

Ddasaccident670, Hd-Aid

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While the deminer was working in his lane by the end of the working day, he tried to move one AP (M35) mine partially covered in the ground against of the TL instructions using the light RAKE, the mine initiated 1.8 m away from the deminer and caused the wounds and the mentioned injures to the deminer that he wasn’t wearing the visor in the proper way

Ddasaccident624, Hd-Aid

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The primary cause of this accident is listed as a Field Control inadequacy because the investigators found that there was poor supervision at the time of the accident. The secondary cause is listed as Other because there is not enough detail in the summary to determine what the deminer was doing, and what tool he was using.

Ddasaccident702, Hd-Aid

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On 28 July 2009 at 08:10 hrs when Ahmed de-miner was working on a signal in his clearance lane by using a pickaxe instead of bayonet, he hit the mine on its top and caused it to go off. According to the investigation report the ground surface was uneven, hard and impossible to work in sitting position, so he has started to investigate the signal in standing position. This was the main reason of initiating mine and accident.

Ddasaccident669, Hd-Aid

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Deminer Was Clearing the first 60 cm from the centre lane on a depth of 30 cm using the heavy RAKE after he done with the light rake , deminer hit the M14 mine on a depth of 35 cm by the heavy rake which initiate the mine. [The depth appears to be an error, and should perhaps be 15cm.]

Ddasaccident649, Hd-Aid

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On 13 August 2009 at 07:15 am while [the victim] deminer was excavating a excavating a dog indication in an access lane, his pick touched on the top of PMN 2 anti-personnel mine and caused it to go off. According to the investigation report the deminer has used the pickaxe to investigate the signal found in dog indication instead of the bayonet and it seems as he used the pick directly on the top of signal, so hit the mine and caused the accident. From the location of injuries it seems the deminer has not used his PPE and visor …

Ddasaccident642, Hd-Aid

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While the deminer was clearing the lane from stones using the light rake he removed the stones not behind him but he conducted a violation of drill and he threw the stones to the left side of the safe lane and one of the stone hit the unknown mine 12 meters forward to the Syrian side at IOE to the contaminated area resulting mine blast.

Ddasaccident705, Hd-Aid

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The deminer was looking for a missing mine (M14) in the cluster and the metal detector indicated a very weak signal, the deminer started to investigated that signal then the mine initiated that the deminer wasn’t following the proper procedure to approach the mine

Ddasaccident681, Hd-Aid

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On 21 July 2009 while deminer [the Victim] was working in his clearance lane, investigating a detected signal with his hand trowel, he hit a mine on its top and caused it to go off. The weather was hot and the ground surface was hard and dry, so it seems that the deminer had used his excavation tool by force and carelessly and directly on pinpointed spot so touched the top of mine and caused the accident. As the deminer was dressed with PPE (vest, helmet and visor according to [Demining group] SOPs), so his face, neck and chest remained …

Ddasaccident675, Hd-Aid

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Narrative: While the deminer was trying to investigate a signal using the heavy RAKE and after he pinpointed it , and finished with the light RAKE the deminer hit the non visible AP mine (M14) by the heavy RAKE on the pressure plate which initiated the mine 2.2 metres away from the deminer.

Ddasaccident671, Hd-Aid

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The burner prepared one MK5 stuck mine inside the stuck mine burning pit; he burned the mine in the right procedure and lift the burning area to a safe distance. The mine took a long waiting time to be burned that caused the deminer to go back to the burning area to check the reason, on his way back to the burning area the MK5 stuck mine blasted and small fragments hit the burner in his chin and face and caused the some injuries.

Ddasaccident752, Hd-Aid

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On 1st July 2009 MU-16 of [Demining group] started clearance operation on mentioned task. On 08 July 2009 at 0919hrs while [the Victim] was investigating a signal in his clearance lane, he found two bullets. He re-checked the spot and found the same signal, this process repeated for three times. Finally he found a root stump in the excavation trench with a thickness of around 2.5 cm and started to remove it, because it was blocking further excavation there. However the deminer had proper tool in his toolkit to cut such obstacles, but he tried to cut it with his …

Ddasaccident623, Hd-Aid

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The incident caused by individual mistake while the deminer using the heavy RAKE in a hacking motion not as the proper procedure the Raking motion, and most of the mines in the area are surfaces mines that they can be recovered just with the usage of the light RAKE even if that will cost the deminer more sweat but it will still safer.

Ddasaccident604, Hd-Aid

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While the deminer try to investigate a signal in lane 15 (12 O’clock mine) he didn’t approached the mine in the proper procedure which caused the deminer to hit the mine from the top of the pressure plate and initiate the mine 2.2 m away from the deminer (the distance of the heavy RAKE).

Ddasaccident824, Hd-Aid

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On 1st July 2009 at [International demining organisation] BAC Task CBU-681, a detonation of a US M series submunition occurred while [the Victim] an [International demining organisation] Searcher ID No. LS 444 was conducting subsurface search and excavating the signals. [The Victim] sustained injuries in his left arm, little finger.

Based on all available evidence, the BOI team concludes that the immediate response to the accident by the team leader and the treatment by the medic enabled an effective casevac and subsequent medevac from the task to Najdeh hospital in Nabatiyeh. Supervised by both the TFM and Site Supervisor.

Ddasaccident712, Hd-Aid

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On 18 April 2009 [Demining group] DT-05 started clearance operation on mentioned task, they cleared around 19830 sqm area and found/destroyed 4 anti-personnel mines and 2 UXO till the accident time. On 27 June 2009 at 11:15 am the deminer [the Victim] was working in his clearance lane, he found a signal behind some stones, the investigation of signal was impossible with bayonet so he informed the section leader and sought his advice. Section leader instructed him to use pick, but a stone in front of pinpointed signal did not let the pick to be used easily. Therefore, the deminer …