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Ddasaccident563, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident563, Hd-Aid
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On the 5th July 2007 at 1228hrs, two [International commercial demining agency] BAC searchers were involved in an accident, which was caused by an uncontrolled detonation of an M77 sub-munitions. The detonation took place during a period when all searchers were not conducting search/clearance operations but were preparing to start work after a 10 minutes rest period.
Ddasaccident792, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident792, Hd-Aid
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[The Victim] deminer was working in his lane and had some advancement on his working lane. After he excavated a signal and found nothing he went to the safe area for rest and when he was coming back on the lane that was cleared by him, suddenly the explosion occurred. It shows that he had missed a mine.
Ddasaccident561, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident561, Hd-Aid
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On 2nd Jul 2007, two sub-munitions (1x M77 & 1xM42) were reported as found by the [International commercial company] completions team during a final inspection of CBU 771, before handover to the MACC SL. These items were located by the local land owner (woman) while harvesting her wheat crop. They were located in an area immediately adjacent to her house (within the task site) which had been reported as cleared by [International commercial company] sub-surface. The items were located on the surface. The owner reported the find to [International commercial company] completions team during and internal completion QA.
Ddasaccident469, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident469, Hd-Aid
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A mine blast incident occurred at approximately 08:35hrs on Sunday 01/07/2007 in the minefield 69270030. The deminer detonated a M35 Belgium anti personnel blast mine due in direct contact to the top of the mine. At the time of the incident the deminer was wearing the PPE (Body vest and Goggles). Deminer tried to lift the top soil crust by using heavy rake, The rake slipped and struck the mine resulting in mine blast. The deminer sustained no injury.
Report On The Follow-Up Assessment Into Operational Mine/Uxo Activities In Kosovo, Gichd
Report On The Follow-Up Assessment Into Operational Mine/Uxo Activities In Kosovo, Gichd
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In July-August 2006, the Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining (GICHD) conducted a mission to Kosovo at the request of the Office of the Kosovo Protection Corps Coordinator (OKPCC). The purpose of the mission was to assess concerns raised by the HALO Trust that the extent of the remaining landmine and unexploded ordnance (UXO) contamination in Kosovo had been underestimated and, thus, provided an inadequate basis for future planning. The assessment team reviewed a sample of task dossiers, including all those identified as a concern by the HALO Trust. They found some problems with information management in the Explosive Ordnance …
Ddasaccident468, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident468, Hd-Aid
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[The Victim] was part of an [Demining group] Mine Clearance Team was clearing an area of ground that they knew was definitely mined with PMN anti-personnel mines, laid very close together, at intervals of less than one metre between one mine and the next. The day was not a normal working day but nothing untoward had happened during the previous twenty-four hours that might affect operations at the site. [The Victim] was working unsupervised in the middle part of the site; the drills and procedures he was using were probably not in accordance with SOP and the site was inadequately …
Ddasaccident568, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident568, Hd-Aid
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On the morning of 21st June 07 at approximately 0616hrs [Demining group] BAC Teams commenced operations at CBU 071. At approximately 1104hrs, an uncontrolled explosion occurred in the plantation at UTM 728309/3676516. An [Demining group] searcher, Mr. [the Victim] who was conducting search operations in the area of the detonation was not directly involved in causing the detonation but he was in the immediate area of the detonation where he was conducting sub surface clearance operations.
Ddasaccident721, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident721, Hd-Aid
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The searcher was working in the lane when he had a need for toilet. The searcher closed his lane using a base stick (picture 1). The searcher put down his detector on the ground (picture 2). When the searcher was approximate 10 metres away the detonation occurred. The searcher fell down, turned on the side and become unconscious.
Ddasaccident569, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident569, Hd-Aid
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On 18 June 2007 at 1140 hrs (local time), [the Victim] a (Commercial demining group) Deminer, inadvertently caused an item of explosive ordnance (EO), which is considered to be a No. 4A anti-personnel mine, to activate, while conducting the manual mine clearance full excavation procedure. As a result of the explosion [the Victim] was thrown backwards by the blast wave and suffered a traumatic amputation of the right hand, a fractured right humerous and critical head and eye injuries.
Ddasaccident507, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident507, Hd-Aid
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The mentioned area is located to a hill side which is contaminated by AP mines and is a dense area of fragments. The area is steep and raining over the past years washed down the soil from the top of the hill and changed the position of some mines. [The Victim] deminer was excavating the ground while suddenly the accident happened. As the deminer had worn his PPE and visor, he did not receive any injuries and he is in good health situation. The investigation result shows that the negligence of the deminer and poor control of command group contribute …
Ddasaccident736, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident736, Hd-Aid
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Because the area was recently worked on (ploughed) and thus the lack of evidence, it cannot be confirmed that the BLU 63 was missed during clearance, its original depth or previous location and possible migration / importation with the compost.
Ddasaccident761, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident761, Hd-Aid
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The item (M 77) was located on a road inside and between cleared areas. The road itself has been cleared and the item is so obvious that it cant been missed during clearance. See photo attached for road condition.
Ddasaccident484, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident484, Hd-Aid
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On 04 June 2007 at 1103 hrs while the deminer was working in his clearance lane, his trowel struck the top of a PMN anti personnel mine, causing the mine to detonate. During the accident his visor was not worn. This lack of face protection caused the serious injuries to his eyes. The accident occurred near a corner of a ruined mud wall. The mud wall over a period of time had gradually disintegrated and fallen on ground surface, thus increasing the ground depth over the mine. The ground depth reached 70 cm at the accident point; the deminer had …
Ddasaccident495, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident495, Hd-Aid
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As a result of a demining accident on [the Victim], the deminer of [National demining agency], MCT-17 at 09:35 Hrs, February 06, 2007 in task # AF/2002/17610/MF0337, located at Qala-e-Shater village, Injeel district of Herat province, investigation team was convened by UNAMAC Hirat to conduct the investigation and find out the main causes of mentioned accident.
Ddasaccident493, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident493, Hd-Aid
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On 2nd June 2007, a demining accident occurred to deminer of [National demining agency] named [the Victim] at MF # AF/2402/00000/MF192 located at Tourkotal village, Daman district of Kandahar province. As the involved deminer had used the PPE properly, he has not received any injuries.
Ddasaccident552, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident552, Hd-Aid
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According to the AMAC Northeast’s investigation report, the accident occurred while the deminer was excavating on a reading in a cross lane (cut lane). As a result of this accident, the deminer received some light injuries on both hands. According to the Assistant Team Leader, the mine position had changed and the deminer’s bayonet touched the top of the mine and detonated.
Ddasaccident567, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident567, Hd-Aid
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On the morning of 21st May 2007 at approximately 0630hrs [Demining group] BAC Team 2 re-deployed back to CBU 040 to start operations. At approximately 1140hrs, an uncontrolled explosion occurred at the building site adjacent to the rear of the BAC Team 2 CP, UTM 712082/3681844, involving a civilian worker, Mr. [the Victim], who was delivering building material to the construction site. Mr. [the Victim] had reversed his truck on the area adjacent the construction site and had commenced to unload the vehicle. During this process Mr. [the Victim] kicked, stepped or dropped some building materials on a M77 sub-munition …
Ddasaccident447, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident447, Hd-Aid
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Activity being performed when accident occurred: [the Victim] was performing excavation with a bayonet probe (prodder) from left to right (left handed) and hit a PMN mine. It is not clear why was he using his bayonet prodder for excavation, or if he probed the soil before excavating. No MDD or MDU were in support of DT #4 on the day the accident occurred.
Ddasaccident445, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident445, Hd-Aid
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Activity being performed when accident occurred: According to [Demining group] Field Officer, Mr. [Name removed], both deminers were together on the base stick when the accident occurred because acting SL [Victim no.1] was verbally instructing Deminer [Victim no.2] how to perform excavation. Deminer [Victim no.2] was performing excavation with a bayonet probe (prodder) and hit a PMN mine. It is not clear why was he using his bayonet prodder for excavation, or if he probed the soil before excavating. No MDD or MDU were in support of DT #4 on the day the accident occurred.
Ddasaccident762, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident762, Hd-Aid
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The land owner, [Name removed], immediately contacted the CLO area 1-5 on the 5th May 2007 to report the location and the events surrounding the incident. This site was visited by MACC SL Operations, QA and the CLO to conduct an investigation of the event surrounding the discovery of the sub-munitions.
Ddasaccident775, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident775, Hd-Aid
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After the inhabitants of the Milon village requested AMAC Gardez for clearance of this mined suspected road, the AMAC deployed a LIAT and subsequently a survey team to this area. The technical survey of this minefield completed on 14 June 2005 and as it was antitank mine, on 12 July 2005, [Demining group] # 15 was tasked to clear it. After clearance, it was handed over to local people. The involved tractor was carrying construction material to one of the inhabitant’s house but before arriving to the destination, it has been hit by a mine.
Ddasaccident490, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident490, Hd-Aid
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A. On 19 April 2007, while the [International demining NGO] loader (MDU # 9) was excavating the ground by using Gill bucket and then the soil inspecting for Antitank mines and UXO but an antipersonnel YM-1 mine has passed through the grids of the Gill bucket and missed from inspection. While the Loader has been levelling the loose dragged soil, in reverse position the front left was tyre driven on the mine and exploded it.
Ddasaccident510, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident510, Hd-Aid
Global CWD Repository
On 19th April-07 at 08:10 hrs while the Deminer was excavating the area by pickaxe suddenly an anti personal mine has hit by pickaxe and exploded caused the accident and Deminer got superficial injuries on his right arm and neck. During our observation from the accident point it was seemed that the Deminer was working with pickaxe not by bayonet/prodder, because the pickaxe handle was available in the accident point.
Ddasaccident732, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident732, Hd-Aid
Global CWD Repository
On the inspection of the incident site on the 17th April 2007 the following observation was established: The sub-munition was located on the surface, in a declared, sub-surface cleared area. The sub-munition was removed from a mound of soil that had been excavated from an area adjacent to a road, during excavation of a retaining wall and then the sub-munition was placed in this area. The [Demining group] completion documents indicated the area was sub-surface cleared, however where the clearance bordered the road and where overhead power lines were present the area was only surface cleared due to interference when …
Ddasaccident738, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident738, Hd-Aid
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CBU 19 was completed on the 31stMarch 07, see annex A for the [Demining group] Completion Report. According to the Completion Report the task was a combination of surface and sub-surface clearance in accordance with the operational clearance plan. The CBU was located, and reported to the MACC CLO, on Saturday (14th April) morning by a local farmer.
Ddasaccident485, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident485, Hd-Aid
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On 10 April 2007 at 1155 hrs while deminer [the Victim] with employ No. 4094 was working in his clearance lane after 3 m progress in the lane his trowel hit top of a PMN-02 anti personnel mine, as a result the mine exploded and the deminer sustained some injuries. Since the deminer was fully dressed with PPE and down visor, the deminer injuries are superficial. The victim right hand wrist and two fingers were injured.
Ddasaccident751, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident751, Hd-Aid
Global CWD Repository
On the morning of the 9th April 2007 the land owner had contracted a local farmer to commence cultivation of his land for follow-up planting, during the process of the cultivation the operator of the machine noticed on his return ploughing an M77 sub-munition, had been turned over and was now quite visible on the surface on the newly ploughed area. He immediately stopped work and report the incident to the land owner who in turn informed {Demining group] personnel in the area.
Ddasaccident764, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident764, Hd-Aid
Global CWD Repository
On the morning of the 5th April 2007 the land owner, [Name removed], was cultivation her land, which is directly adjacent to her house. During this process she detonated an M 85 most likely either by touching or picking it up.
Ddasaccident766, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident766, Hd-Aid
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On 03 April 2007, one M-77 Submunition was located by a local farmer while harvesting his orange orchard and banana plantation, in the vicinity of Task CBU-203, which had been completed by [Demining group] using sub-surface Battle Area Clearance (BAC) procedures. The farmer reported the find to [Name removed], MACC SL Community Liaison Assistant. After meeting with the farmer and confirming the information, the item was marked, photographed and the farmer was requested to remain outside the orchard pending further investigation. The incident was reported to [Name removed], MACC SL Operations Officer who, together with Capt [Name removed], LAF Operations …
Guide To Mine Risk Education And Tools, Mozambique Pilot Project, 2005-06, Hi
Guide To Mine Risk Education And Tools, Mozambique Pilot Project, 2005-06, Hi
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This presentation was part of the LMAD practioners meeting that took place in Geneva in April 2007.