I.NAME WAS APPA9ENTLY STRUCK BY OR PARTIALLY RUN OVER BY A RAILWAY CAR WHERE HE APPARENTLY WAS STANDING EITHER ON THE CAR OR BETWEEN THE CARS DURING TRAIN MOVEMENT. HE WAS FOUND LYING ACROSS A RAIL UNDERNEAT2 THE RAILWAY CAR.
Davis Bruce D: 4 recorded fatalities controller
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Top causes
- POWERED HAULAGE 2 fatalities · 9 non-fatal
- FALL OF ROOF OR BACK 2 fatalities · 7 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS 55 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON 22 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) 18 non-fatal
- MACHINERY 15 non-fatal
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Operators under this controller
Mines on record
- Central Services TN
- Railroad TN
- Iron Roasters TN
- London Mill TN
- Cherokee Mine TN
- Cherokee Open Pit TN
- Mine Shops TN
- Calloway Mine TN
Fatalities under this controller
4 recordedINJ OPERATING L2ADER ON RAMP BETTWEEN 14 & 16 LEVELS.LOADER WENT OUT OF CONTROL AND STARTED BACK DOWN RAMP.OPERATOR THROWN OR JUMPED FROM LOADER.PRONOUNCED DEAD AT SCENE BY DR. OF CERVICAL FRA CTURE.--TRUCK T9AVELLING UP SAME RAMP,LOADER OPERATOR LOST CONTROL OF VEHICLE AND HIT THE TRUCK.
DECEASED WAS PREPARING TO DRILL HEADING.HE WAS ON JUMBO DECK WITH PARTNER.BAULK GROUND FELL FROM BACK DIRECTLY OVER THEM STRIKING BOTH MEN.I.NAME RECEIVED SKULL FRACTURE WITH MASSIVE INJ OF PO STERIOR PARIETAL-OCCIPITAL REGION CAUSING HIS DADEATH.
VICTIM WAS DRILLING WITH JUMBO IN HEADING ON CHEROKEE 18N17 SUB 6 WHEN HE WAS STRUCK BY BAULK GROUND WHICH FELL FROM APPROXIMATELY 4FT OVERHEAD STRIKING HIM APPARENTLY KILLING HIM INSTANTLY FR OM ACUTE FRACTURE OF NECK THE GROUND WAS APPROX 3FT IN DIAMETER 4IN THICK WEIGHED APPROX 300-400LBS
Where Davis Bruce D stands on silica, penalties, and injury rate
MSHA's standard limits respirable silica to 50 micrograms per cubic metre, but MSHA publishes dust and quartz as separate files and never the silica figure itself. We derive it per sample, score it against the limit, and set the operator's injury rate against a benchmark built from the full MSHA operator record. With the 26-year penalty trail, contest posture, and fatality history. Delivered as a PDF with the underlying data as CSV.
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