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Ddasaccident722, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident722, Hd-Aid
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According to external investigation report, the witness statements, injuries of involved de-miners and physical observation of the accident point, the accident occurred when [Victim No.1] was cutting bushes with scissor. During cutting off bushes in his clearance lane, he moved his right foot forward beyond the base stick, stepped on a Type-72 mine and caused it to go off. This accident caused traumatic amputation to his right foot below the ankle joint and left leg injuries. This also caused multiple injuries to the second deminer [Victim No.2], who was busy in marking the same lane in a 5 meters distance …
Ddasaccident680, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident680, Hd-Aid
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The primary cause of this accident is listed as Other because there is not enough information to draw any conclusion about the cause of the accident. The secondary cause is listed as a Management Control Inadequacy because the spreadsheet summary includes no details or injury or conclusions and is virtually useless, which is a UN MACCA responsibility.
Ddasaccident614, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident614, Hd-Aid
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It is the conclusion of the investigation team that the involved deminer did not properly mark the signal with the reading marker. Also he was carelessly excavating the reading point, and this caused the mine to be exploded.
Ddasaccident541, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident541, Hd-Aid
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On the time of the incident [Name removed] was carrying out mine clearance by raking method in a lane where he earlier had found 7 AP mines Type 72. The area he was raking was free from vegetation and no large tree roots or any other obstacles was in the near vicinity of the ground where he was raking. The soil conditions were loose clay. The Team Leader had been checking the deminer 10 minutes before the incident and the section leader had left his lane just a few minutes before the incident. [The Victim] did by raking detonated a …
Ddasaccident707, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident707, Hd-Aid
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Nobody saw the accident and the team leader and section commander both claimed to have performed supervision of the lane (at least once for every working period by the SC).
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.
Ddasaccident441, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident441, Hd-Aid
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Narrative: During the removal of rubble, sand and rubbish in a holding area inside a building (area has been cleared with metal detector and excavation drills in April 2003 by [the same demining group]), the deminer was walking backwards and reaching the rear wall to fill his shovel again, as an uncontrolled detonation occurred. The detonation caused the traumatic amputation of his left foot.
Ddasaccident427, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident427, Hd-Aid
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According to the deminer statement He has cleared the line about 1 m to 1,5 meter and made search for signal in one location he got more signals and have made a deep hole to try to located the signals when he was satisfy with the investigation of the hole he has moved his base stick and got up from his knee position to take the gardening shear in order to cut side vegetation at that time his left leg twisted skid towards in the previous excavation hole . Immediately he heard some noise and sand and dust all over …
Ddasaccident456, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident456, Hd-Aid
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The demining pair were clearing a lane as a team with one doing the detection and the other clearing the vegetation. The pair had just changed around after detection. The victim moved to the top of the clearance lane to re-position the red string lines and begin clearing vegetation and spoil from the next part of the lane prior to detection. As the victim bent down to position the stakes with the red string attached, he stood on a mine with his left foot on the cleared left hand side of the lane. When the mine exploded, the victim’s partner …
Ddasaccident384, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident384, Hd-Aid
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On 18th Apr 2002 one of our deminers activated a small AP mine while he was excavating the ground. The deminer had excavated almost half of the lane along the base stick when the explosion happened.
Ddasaccident440, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident440, Hd-Aid
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HALO Sri Lanka manual demininG SOPs for 100% excavation. He was using the axe hammer tool to excavate the face of his lane down to a depth of 15cm when the detonation occurred. The mine detonated on the left hand side of his lane as he was using the axe hammer.”
Ddasaccident309, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident309, Hd-Aid
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On the day of the accident the site-log recorded that work started at 06:30 and a change-over took place every 30 minutes thereafter. The accident occurred during a change-over period. While standing up from a kneeling position at 10:45, Victim No.1 lost his balance and fell forwards detonation a Type-72 antipersonnel blast mine [probably with his hand]. Victim No.1’s partner and Section Leader were standing too close to him at the time.
Ddasaccident365, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident365, Hd-Aid
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“On his normal site duties of transporting water from a water pump that was close to the minefield, [the Victim] went into the minefield behind a Baobab tree to help himself to the bush toilet. Whilst defecating behind the tree he detonated an AP mine when he pricked on the ground with his machete.”
Ddasaccident308, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident308, Hd-Aid
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The victim was clearing away dirt from two detector readings. At about 10:05, during the transfer of spoil from the excavations to a bucket behind him, the victim dropped soil from the trowel. The soil landed in a non-cleared area and detonated a Type-72 anti-personnel blast mine.
Ddasaccident317, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident317, Hd-Aid
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The accident took place in a mined area 30k North West of Beira along the Beira-Mwanza road. The victim was told by the Deputy Platoon Commander to take a hoe and a garden spade to the place marked with four red sticks and dig it out to find the metal that was making the detector signal. The victim started to dig at the place. He was not wearing protective equipment. After digging for ten minutes, at 06:20 the hoe he was using detonated a Type-72a mine [both 72a and 72b are mentioned in the varied papers].
Ddasaccident357, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident357, Hd-Aid
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The accident had taken place at 1245hrs; the injured deminer arrived at Emergency hospital in Sulymania at 1400hrs and was admitted. The prodder which he had been using was badly damaged and had taken on the shape of a half moon. This indicated that the point of the prodder had detonated the mine.
Ddasaccident160, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident160, Hd-Aid
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The working area was on the Cambodian mid-level (as opposed to flood plain and mountainous area) so there was a lot of bamboo. The victim was the prodder man and was called by his partner to investigate the source of a detector reading near some bamboo. The victim knelt on the ground and prodded the area for a short time. At 11:05 he initiated a mine and fell back into the cleared area.
Ddasaccident320, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident320, Hd-Aid
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A Trainee Supervisor was trying to explain the operation of the Type-72a mine to some of his colleagues in a “self initiated” lecture. The Trainee Supervisor “tried to force open the mine whilst explaining the function mechanism” and “initiated the detonator”, suffering a minor injury to one finger.
Ddasaccident162, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident162, Hd-Aid
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The victim stated that he was prodding to a depth of about 8cm and did not feel the mine before it exploded. He said that normally when the ground was very wet they stopped operations because it was not comfortable to lie down. He maintained that he had been lying on his plastic sheet but was still getting wet and the ground conditions were not safe to work in.
Ddasaccident166, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident166, Hd-Aid
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The victim's partner placed a start stick about 25cm away from the marked edge of the safe lane from which they were advancing, and a second stick half a meter in front of that (so marking the working area). The victim checked his detector, then started to sweep the first 50cm in front of the start stick. This took about one minute. On finding the area clear he bent down to pick up the start stick and moved it forward, taking a step forward as he did so. He stepped on a mine that had been in front of or …
Ddasaccident055, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident055, Hd-Aid
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The investigators visited the site on 4th November 1997 and found the deminers clearing a 2m wide verge on both sides of the road. They observed that the deminers were clearing without using marking sticks and at a distance of only 6 metres apart. The victim and his partner began work at 07:30. By 08.50 they had cleared 502 metres. Both men wore frag-jackets, helmet and visor. The victim was clearing by using his prodder. He was called to help his Section Leader remove grass from a large pothole in the road. As he returned at 08:50 he stepped on …
Ddasaccident168, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident168, Hd-Aid
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The victim was a prodder man and he and his partner had already cleared about 20m and had found about 30 fragments. At 08:30 the victim was returning along the lane after clearing some vegetation and trod on a mine that was about 11m into the lane.
Ddasaccident080, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident080, Hd-Aid
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The victim was part of an advance team which was defining the perimeter of a suspected mined area, with the help of a local guide. The victim was putting in metal markers about 3m away from the existing mined-area boundary stakes. At 09:20 the victim stepped on a mine about 8m away from the existing boundary stakes. He suffered " a cracked bone and bruising to his left foot".
Ddasaccident176, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident176, Hd-Aid
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The two men were close to the detonation and both suffered severe hand injury so a handling accident is inferred. Light face injuries including eye "burns" imply that their safety spectacles were not worn. If the victims were handling the device, the control failure is compounded because the demining group's SOPs did not allow them to handle devices.
Ddasaccident361, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident361, Hd-Aid
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The Victim picked up a rock and moved back with it to put it to one side. He had withdrawn two meters when a dislodged rock rolled into the area he had cleared of rocks and detonated a Type-72a blast mine.
Ddasaccident067, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident067, Hd-Aid
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In an "Accident report" supplied by the commercial demining company on 13th January 1999 the accident was described as having occurred on a narrow section of bridge that was left spanning the River "Lui" (the main part of the bridge was destroyed). The demining company had been contracted to clear the road and did not have responsibility for clearing the bridge. The narrow section was used to gain access to the far side of the bridge and continue working along the road. The demining team crossed it in order to work. When they returned the victim (who was a medic) …
Ddasaccident177, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident177, Hd-Aid
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The Medical report recorded the time of the accident as 18:00, which is long after work stops for the day. From this it is inferred that the victim stepped on a mine in an area believed safe. That area may or may not have been previously cleared.
Ddasaccident180, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident180, Hd-Aid
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The demining team uncovered three Type 72a mines and called the supervisor to deal with them. The victim was walking over a cleared area at 10:30 when he detonated another Type 72a mine. He received injuries described in the field as "light". He was taken to Mong Kol Borey hospital arriving at 11.20.
Ddasaccident071, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident071, Hd-Aid
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A senior official with the demining group reported in informal discussions during December 1998 that an accident had occurred at Luchimba (spelt phonetically) Bridge in Malanje in 1995. In this accident an expatriate Technical Advisor was using a Schiebel detector in an uncleared area and detonated a Type 72 blast mine. It did not have a booster charge so he only initiated the percussion cap and escaped unhurt. He left Angola soon afterwards.
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.