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  1. Alberto Barranco L. said, on August 28, 2009 at 1:47 pm

    My name is Alberto BarrancoLeyva . I am technical mechanic in machinery of mine. The 27 of September of the 2005 I had an labor accident in Cerrejon BHP- billiton with a multiplier of torque 6V-6080 CAT while it changed a suspension of a truck Caterpillar 793 B. The impact fractured and squashed the frontal bone of my head and I originate a fissure until my bone occipital. Consequently permanent I lost my olfactory capacity and partially (anosmia) the Taste. They more ahead realised a surgery to me for the reconstruction of the frontal bone of the skull (Craneoplastia). At the time of the accident it worked as provision for company GECOLSA. S.A. and this one had transferred to me as well to CERREJON bhp biliton like the part of the contract MARC that had been signed between both companies.
    In agreement with some publications of the Internet the 21 of May of year 2004 died an Australian mechanic called Ross Mckinnon that also executed a change of the suspension in a truck Caterpillar 785 in a mine in western Australia and at the time of applying to it to adjustment to the bolt hold the suspension the internal mechanisms of the multiplier of the torsion effort failed and it struck torquimeter it in his head, unfortunately for him causing the death to him. I wanted to know if as a result of the death of Ross Mckinnon the BHP-Billiton retired of its operations in the world the multiplier of torque because of being thus, it did not have to be in the Cerrejon factories Z.N in the date of my accident. CERROMATOSO – BHP-Billiton restricted the use of the multiplier of the effort of torsion as of year 2004 after the fatality of Mckinnon, that is a clear indication that existed the restriction.

    I need to have certainty on the restriction or not of the use of the multiplier 6v-6080 CAT in mines of the BHP- Billiton. Do you have some information about this? it is opportune to indicate that the tool was retired of the CERREJON BHP- Billiton operations after my accident and its use is prohibited since then.

    Thanks for its attention.

    Alberto Barranco Leyva
    Clle 58 # 37-42 Apto 203
    Cell 3126393935
    Barranquilla- Colombia


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