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Preliminary Loss Reports (PLRs)

MEDIA Preliminary Loss Reports

About Preliminary Loss Reports (PLRs)

PLRs are intended to be used as an engagement tool for leaders to discuss the hazards and trends impacting Soldier safety and readiness. A PLR contains only basic information, as the investigation is ongoing, but provides sufficient background to allow leaders an opportunity to communicate risk at the Soldier level.

 

PLR 20-064 – GMV Mishap Claims One Soldier's Life

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A Specialist assigned to Fort Drum, New York, died in a Government Motor Vehicle mishap 3 July 2020 in Farah, Afghanistan, at 1830 local. The Soldier was operating an M-RZR on a forward operating base when the vehicle overturned and pinned him under the roll bar. The CZE medics responded and began lifesaving procedures. The Soldier was transported to a medical facility, where he was pronounced dead. The mishap is under investigation.

Since 2016, the Army has lost an average of 12 Soldiers a year to on-duty GMV mishaps. This mishap is the ninth on-duty GMV fatality of FY20.

 

 

PLR 18-084 - Fire Mishap Claims One Army Civilian's Life

Posting Date:   /   Categories: Preliminary Loss Reports, Workplace
An Army Civilian Corps employee died of burns from a flash fire that occurred on 19 July 2018, at approximately 0720 local, on Letterkenny Army Depot, Pennsylvania. He and two other employees were in the process of moving a 55-gallon drum of paint thinner in the painting kitchen when the fire erupted in the area of the drum. The other two employees sustained serious injuries.
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