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Ddasaccident330, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident330, Hd-Aid
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At 09h15, the team arrived to Koshare 1. At 11h15, the Team Leader moves [the Victim] to the new working clearance lane. At 11h40, uncontrolled detonation. The mine involved in the accident is the PMA-3 blast mine.
Ddasaccident328, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident328, Hd-Aid
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The Section Commander was not looking at the Supervisor at the time of the accident and couldn’t witness the accident. When he turned around, he saw that [the Victim] was in the uncleared area, between the two rows of mines. The Section Commander called for assistance. The mine involved in the accident was a blast anti-personnel mine type PMA-2.
Ddasaccident329, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident329, Hd-Aid
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As he was going down the row to mark the end of the row, he stood on two PMA-1 mines on top of each other. At the time of the accident, the [Demining group] reconnaissance team was conducting a Level 2 Survey without proper communication, medical support and without wearing PPE. This activity was being carried out despite an earlier decision to suspend clearance operations because of poor weather conditions.
Ddasaccident327, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident327, Hd-Aid
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The [Demining group] base informed [demining group Programme Manager] that Morina #2 clearance have started. Uncontrolled explosion occurs in Morina 2 minefield, 1 deminer injured.
Ddasaccident273, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident273, Hd-Aid
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Work began at the site at 08:00. At 09:50 a deminer reported having found a PMA-3 while prodding [no mention of detectors was made]. The victim ordered the deminers out of the field and went to "neutralise" the mine. He removed the UPMAH initiator from the mine and noticed that is was "slightly damaged". He carried the mine body in his right hand and the initiator in his left hand as he walked out of the mined area. At 10.05 the detonator in the initiator exploded in his hand.
Ddasaccident272, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident272, Hd-Aid
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The accident occurred at the start of the working day when the victim began working in the same lane as he had been working in on the previous day. Work started at 08:00 and he was "squatting on his knees" and prodding at 08:20 when he detonated a PMA-3 mine.
Ddasaccident014, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident014, Hd-Aid
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The group operated using a one-man drill and a two-man team with the resting deminers in a designated rest-area. Working time varied between 30 minutes and an hour depending on "the weather conditions". The last MACC QA visit had been seven days before. [There was no mention of metal-detectors in the report, so it is presumed that a "sapping drill was being used.]
Ddasaccident271, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident271, Hd-Aid
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At 11:35 Victim No.1 moved to edge of the cleared area to look at the mine he had seen and trod on a PMA-3 inside the area marked as cleared. "The victim walked/ran by himself to a safe area" where other deminers made him lie down and calmed him. The medics arrived and Victim No.1 was carried to the ambulance. He left for the Argentine KFOR hospital at 11:45 and arrived as 12:10. He was conscious at all times. The hospital released him "Later in the afternoon".
Ddasaccident269, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident269, Hd-Aid
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At 10:20 The victim was using a "Schonstedt GA 72-cd Locator in his "clearance area" and got a signal. He moved the grass from the area and "noticed a silver coloured metallic object visible on the surface". He was moving a stone to investigate this "suspected part of a BLU 97" when at 10:20 it detonated. He suffered injury to the index finger of his right hand. He was wearing his PPE according to SOPs. [The PPE was not described or photographed but would have included a visor and flak-jacket as required in that theatre.]
Ddasaccident267, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident267, Hd-Aid
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The victim was excavating at 11:08 when he initiated a PMA-3 [identified by inference] with his left foot. He received minor injuries to his left foot, right leg and both hands. The injuries were light enough to allow him to extract himself from the mined area to a "safe road" where he was met by the Section Commander and the two medics.
Ddasaccident266, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident266, Hd-Aid
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Anxious to speed up progress, the victim decided to carry out a "reconnaissance". He checked a detector by passing it over his boot and in the air, then started to clear his way into the uncleared area ahead of the safe lane. He proceeded by checking a small area for each foot and stepping onto it if the detector did not signal. Having gone five metres in one direction, he could see that what he had thought was his target was not, and so turned the other way. His route traced a semi-circle. When he had passed in front of …
Ddasaccident265, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident265, Hd-Aid
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When they moved to the second site, they sent for a local villager to show them where the mines were. The villager led them along a trail where they found parts of tripwire and PMA-3 but could not locate the "minefield pattern". The victim and his partner went off the trail and found evidence of a PMA-2 detonation, then an intact PMR-2A and two PMA-3 mines.
Ddasaccident264, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident264, Hd-Aid
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The Team Leader could not see any devices and had turned to call the Site Supervisor at 11:50 when a BLU-97 on the other side of the fence detonated. The boy "suffered a cut nose" and the Team Leader "was deafened in his right ear and received minor metal fragmentation… to his lower right calf".