Continuous Miner Operator

Miner Operator was tramming into cut. When he positioned the miner onto sights, the mining machine was on a knuckle on the bottom causing it to swing in his direction, pinning him against the rib with the tail of the mining machine.

Texto original en inglés de la MSHA

On January 28, 2015, at approximately 6:45 p.m. Rick Kline (victim), a 43-year-old continuous mining machine operator, was fatally injured when he was pinned between the conveyor boom of the remote controlled continuous mining machine and the coal rib in the No. 5 entry on the MMU 001-0, (Lebeau Mains Section). Kline was pinned when he positioned himself between the conveyor boom and the coal rib while tramming the continuous mining machine before beginning to mine coal at the face of the No. 5 entry. The accident occurred because the victim trammed the continuous mining machine while in a position where he could be contacted by the machine. The mine operator’s administrative controls, policies, and training in place at the time of the accident were not adequate to ensure that the safety precautions in the approved roof control plan were being followed. Also, the mine operator does not have engineering controls in place to prevent this type of accident.

1. The provisions of the approved roof control plan to prevent the hazards associated with the movement of mining equipmentwere not followed.

   Acción correctiva: The mine operator has implemented the following written procedures:

Hallazgos del informe final de investigación de la MSHA, que sustituye la narrativa preliminar anterior.

Actividad al momento del incidente

Continuous Miner

Subunidad / ubicación

UNDERGROUND

Ubicación subterránea

FACE

Método de minería

Continuous Mining

Tipo de accidente

Atrapado en, bajo o entre un objeto en movimiento y uno fijo

Fuente de la lesión

UNDERGRD MINING MACHINES

Naturaleza de la lesión

CRUSHING

Parte del cuerpo afectada

CHEST (RIBS/BREAST BONE/CHEST ORGNS)

Experiencia minera total

10 years

Experiencia en esta mina

0 years

Experiencia en este puesto

8 years

Grado de la lesión

FATALITY