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Ddasaccident181, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident181, Hd-Aid
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In the absence of any detail about how the accident occurred, the primary cause of this accident is listed as "Inadequate equipment" because the only identifiable failing is that the group did not provide the victim with effective eye protection (whether it was worn or not is not known).
Ddasaccident182, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident182, Hd-Aid
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The victim was a Team Leader and had noticed that a length of marking tape was broken. He put in a new post and was trying to connect up the tape when he slipped and fell over at approximately 10:30. His body landed in the cleared area but his left foot initiated a PMN-2 mine 36cm into the uncleared area.
Ddasaccident183, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident183, Hd-Aid
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At 12:45 he initiated a mine with his detector, causing him to stagger backwards and collapse about 4 metres behind. After first aid the victim left by ambulance, arriving at Battambang Provincial Hospital at 13:30. The victim was not wearing his safety spectacles, which were found in his hand (he claimed that he was about to put them on). The detector was "completely destroyed".
Ddasaccident184, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident184, Hd-Aid
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The victim stated that he was aware that he had breached SOPs by carrying the fuse out of the mined area after the whistle sounded for the start of the rest period. He did not know why it exploded.
Ddasaccident185, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident185, Hd-Aid
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The victim was investigating the source of a detector reading in an area where the ground had a high level of natural soil contamination. The victim was reported to have been lying down to work. He used his prodder, but because the ground was very hard he also used a trowel to break up the surface. At 11:27 he initiated a Type 72A mine. After first aid the victim was taken by ambulance to Battambang Provincial Hospital, arriving at 12:40.
Ddasaccident013, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident013, Hd-Aid
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The victim was a detector man for his platoon and was working in his lane when at 10:57 the site manager blew a whistle to signal the beginning of a break period. The victim stood up and uncleared area and detonated a PMN-2 with "his head". He was blown back into the cleared lane and died instantly. turned to return to the rest area but suddenly fell. He landed with most of his body in an
Ddasaccident187, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident187, Hd-Aid
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The victim was working as a detector man and at 10:25 he changed roles within the team. Instead of returning to the rest area he walked along the adjacent cleared lane and tried to move a branch lying in an uncleared part of the road to the side of the lane. There was a stone about 50cm from the lane and, judging that there would be no mine underneath, he stepped on it to reach the branch. On his return journey his foot slipped off the stone and detonated a Type 72 mine. He suffered a traumatic amputation of the …
Ddasaccident188, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident188, Hd-Aid
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At 08:20 the victim located a mine and bent down to place a marker. At that point he had a dizzy spell and fell towards the mine, initiating it with the side of his head. He suffered serious injuries to his head and eyes and a broken arm (photographs elsewhere in the file also showed small bandages applied to his abdomen and right knee).
Ddasaccident189, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident189, Hd-Aid
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The Section Commander was doing the prodding himself because he considered the work dangerous and wanted to be sure it was done properly. He was working in a kneeling position and not wearing safety spectacles. He did not use water to soften the ground despite the fact that it was very hard. "The explosion occurred when the Section Commander was prodding a mine 50cm outside the safe lane, his prodding tool slipped from the grassroots and landed on a Type 72 mine". He was said to have sustained temporary vision loss.
Ddasaccident190, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident190, Hd-Aid
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The mined area was laid by the District Police and Militia to protect a dyke from attack. The reconnaissance team warned of booby trapped 60mm mortars and B40 RPGs. At 13:45 on the day of the accident Victim No.1 located a device similar to one that had been found two hours before. He called his Section Commander to identify it. The Section Commander, Victim No.2, arrived and stood to his right behind him. The Section Commander removed his safety spectacles to wipe sweat from his eyes and get a better view. Victim No.1 began to probe again and Victim No.2 …
Ddasaccident191, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident191, Hd-Aid
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The failure to pay compensation is taken to imply minor injury and continued employment.
Ddasaccident192, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident192, Hd-Aid
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The investigators concluded that SOPs were not broken and the Section Commander fell because the stick broke. The report noted that he was wearing his safety spectacles, and that they probably saved his eyes.
Ddasaccident193, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident193, Hd-Aid
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The weather at the time of the accident was "sunny, clear, slight breeze and 85ºF". The victim was walking along the Safe Lane carrying a radio and notebook and thinking when he walked into a small tree. Two small trees (5cm stem thickness) blocked about 1/3 of the Safe Lane at the place. He stumbled sideways and was not able to hold the tree for support. He placed his foot "10-15"cm outside the Safe Lane and detonated a mine at 12:45. The Safe Lane marking tape survived the blast.
Ddasaccident194, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident194, Hd-Aid
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The primary cause of this accident is listed as a "Inadequate equipment” because of the detector failure. The secondary cause is listed as “Field control inadequacy" because the victim trod on a mine that would have been found if appropriate field controls had been in place and if the detector inadequacy had been recognised in a timely manner.
Ddasaccident195, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident195, Hd-Aid
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The primary cause of this accident is listed as a "Field control inadequacy" because it seems likely that the victim was not wearing his safety spectacles and may also have been working dangerously without correction.
Ddasaccident196, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident196, Hd-Aid
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Victim No.1 was sitting with his legs splayed leaning forward, holding the mine with his left hand when the booster charge detonated. He lost a finger, the top of two others and part of the thumb on his left hand, and was also injured above the eye. Victim No.2 suffered superficial injuries "to his hand and head" [from which it seems likely that both deminers had a hand on or near the device when it detonated].
Ddasaccident197, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident197, Hd-Aid
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The summary sheet recorded the device simply as an AP mine and recorded the injury as a lower leg amputation.
Ddasaccident198, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident198, Hd-Aid
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The victim stood on a mine at approximately 13:10 and was "injured with left leg amputated". He was given first aid and evacuated by ambulance to Rattnak Hospital at 13:25. The victim was then evacuated by helicopter to Mongkul Borei Hospital "at 15:00".
Ddasaccident199, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident199, Hd-Aid
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They were working very slowly and had only cleared 15m2 by 14:00. He had checked the area ahead of the lane for tripwires, then cut the grass. The third deminer then went to rest and Victim No.2 checked the area with the detector and marked three places. Victim No.1 then went forward to prod the marked places. He prodded on one but could find nothing so called Victim No.2 forward to show him exactly where the detector had signalled. Victim No.2 did so and as he walked back he stepped on the mine at 14:05. Victim No.2's "left leg was …
Ddasaccident200, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident200, Hd-Aid
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The two victims were walking "through a cleared area to the rest area at the completion of their day's work. They followed a path which was used daily…. the evidence tends to suggest that the mine was laid after clearance by unknown persons". An attached document added that the area where the accident occurred (at 13:10) had been cleared "a month back".
Ddasaccident201, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident201, Hd-Aid
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On the day of the accident demining was stopped at 13:45 because of heavy rain. At 14:05 the victim's platoon walked back to the vehicles in single file. The victim was the last of a group of four people and he stepped on a mine.
Ddasaccident202, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident202, Hd-Aid
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The UN Supervisor instructed Victim No.1 to straighten the sticks marking where the mines had been destroyed because some had fallen over "due to rain". The victim took two steps and a mine exploded under his right foot. The victim "suffered severe leg injury resulting in amputation of right leg above the knee and splinters on his penis and testicles". The UN Supervisor was knocked over but "did not sustain any injuries".
Ddasaccident203, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident203, Hd-Aid
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The accident was mentioned on the demining group's own spreadsheet of incidents they had suffered in the country. However, the country office did not have a copy of their own internal accident report.
Ddasaccident204, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident204, Hd-Aid
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Victim No,1 was working with Victim No.2 to his right when he saw a bush with a pile of PMN-2 mines beneath it. He crouched to peer under the bush, suspecting the cache might be booby trapped. Having seen no sign of a trap he stepped back and initiated a buried PMN-2 with his right heel. Victim No.2 was "less than ten metres away". He received fragment injuries to his arm and fragments of molten plastic in his leg which cut his tendons.